Bus to Marymoor Park
The concept of having busses travel to recreational locations has been covered elsewhere, so I'll be brief.
I heard about Marymoor's concert in the park series, and found the King County web site. It's a very green-oriented site, encouraging all kinds of carbon-footprint reduction and recycling. There are even compostable beer cups.
But I noticed despite asking us to bike there or drive a hybrid (they'll still charge you $5 for parking, but you can park closer), they didn't encourage me to take the bus or provide any bus information.
I guess that's because the bus doesn't go there. Sure, it'll leave there in the morning on weekdays and return there in the evening. So if you live in the park and work downtown you're ok. But if you live in Seattle and want to visit and not stay the night you're apparently out of luck.
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I had the same issue with the King County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Enumclaw. I wanted to take the bus last summer - but there was no bus that ran to the fairgrounds.
It is too bad, especially because the infrastructure there at the end of 520 isn't equipped to handle that crush of cars. Mix it in with the usual rush hour (weeknight concerts start at 7, so you have to drive out there right during the evening rush), and it's gridlock.
Not quite as bad as trying to get to White River Ampitheater, but pretty bad!
take the 550 or the 271 to downtown bellevue, then the 233 to marymoor.
Thanks Alex! I'm not quite sure how I could have found that out on my own - King county Metro's tool tells me I'm out of luck, they don't mention it on the county's web site, and it's not obvious from any map I've seen.
Of course the 233 doesn't run on sundays, but it will get me to the concert.
545 gets reasonably close, although it stops running at 10 PM on weekends. It's about a 15-20 minute walk from the bus stop to the center of the park.