page_title: Phantom Lake
hierarchical_section_title: Phantom Lake
caption_attribution_description: English: Phantom Lake looking east from the viewing platform at Phantom Lake Park
context_page_description: Phantom Lake is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle. A 2.6-mile pedestrian trail circles the lake, and according to the city government, Bellevue's oldest and largest trees are there.
  Located about a mile north of Interstate 90 and west of nearby Lake Sammamish, its surface elevation is approximately 250 feet above sea level.
  Historically, Phantom Lake once drained to the north through the Kelsey Creek basin. Nineteenth-century farmer Henry Thode redirected the Phantom Lake outlet to Lake Sammamish, creating Weowna Creek in the process. Today, Phantom Lake has a surface area of 63 acres and a maximum depth of 45 feet.
  Bellevue Airfield, closed in 1983, was nearby to the southwest; the approach to runway 20 was along the lake's southeastern shore.
context_section_description: Phantom Lake is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle.  A 2.6-mile (4.2 km) pedestrian trail circles the lake, and according to the city government, Bellevue's oldest and largest trees are there.
  Located about a mile (1.6 km) north of Interstate 90 and west of nearby Lake Sammamish, its surface elevation is approximately 250 feet (76 m) above sea level.
  Historically, Phantom Lake once drained to the north through the Kelsey Creek basin. Nineteenth-century farmer Henry Thode redirected the Phantom Lake outlet to Lake Sammamish, creating Weowna Creek in the process.  Today, Phantom Lake has a surface area of 63 acres (0.25 km²) and a maximum depth of 45 feet (14 m). 
  Bellevue Airfield, closed in 1983, was nearby to the southwest; the approach to runway 20 was along the lake's southeastern shore.
caption: View east from Phantom Lake Park in 2017
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