Head of the Lake

  • Hosted By: Lake Washington Rowing Club
  • 2018 Registered Regatta

Parking Map...

Race Map...

Due to a Husky home football game on Saturday November 3rd, there is no parking on Saturday at the University of Washington. This includes E-1 and E-18. If you are arriving with a trailer on Saturday contact Don Kuehn at: [email protected] for alternative parking arrangements.

Limited Parking is available for trailers at LWRC on Saturday and Sunday. You MUST contact Don to make arrangements to park at LWRC. Practice from the LWRC dock on Saturday is available ONLY to the trailers that are assigned to park at LWRC. If you are attending the Frostbite Regatta on Saturday, overnight trailer parking will be available at Greenlake. Overnight security will be provided at Greenlake.

TRAILER PARKING 

If you are arriving with a boat trailer for HOTL, you MUST contact Don Kuehn at: [email protected] and provide him with your contact information.

There is a University of Washington home football game on Saturday November 3rd. Trailer parking will not be available until Sunday morning at UW.

On Sunday morning, trailers may start arriving at 4:30 AM. (North Gate will be open) You MUST enter from the NORTH gate of lot E-1 to reach lot E-18. No trailers will be allowed to enter through the south gate of E-18. Please review the Parking Map... for detail. You may park the trailer near the front of lot E-18 to unload equipment.  Please do not block cars or other trailers. ALL trailers must remain parked in lot E-18 during the regatta. You may unload your boats in E-18 and walk them to the shellhouse for rigging in Lot E-8 or the wood chips area.

CAR TOPPED SHELLS
Due to congestion at Conibear Shellhouse, car topped boats must launch and recover from the Waterfront Activities Center (WAC) near the old Canoe House on the south side of Husky Stadium (Parking Lot E-12). The perimeter road between the docks and the WAC parking lot are for loading/unloading only. Do not leave your vehicles on this road or they will be towed and/or ticketed.

BUS PARKING
ALL BUSES NEED TO ENTER THE E-1 PARKING LOT AT THE NORTH ENTRANCE. The south entrance will be closed.

CAR PARKING
Cars can park in E-1 or E-18. ALL CARS NEED TO ENTER THE E-1 PARKING LOT AT THE NORTH ENTRANCE. The south entrance will be closed.The cost of parking is $10.00.

DIRECTIONS
Directions to E-12 (Car Top Boats) from Highway 520
 Take the Montlake Boulevard exit. Continue north on Montlake Boulevard, crossing the drawbridge.Turn right into the Husky Stadium parking lot adjacent to NE Pacific Street.

Directions to E-18 (Trailers, Busses, Cars) from I-5 Take the NE 45th Street exit (exit #169) from I-5 and continue east on NE 45th Street approximately 1.4 miles to Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Turn right onto Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Go one block and turn right onto Clark Road. At the end of Clark Road you will find the entrance to the E1 lot.

Directions to E-18 (Trailers, Busses, Cars)  from Highway 520: Take the Montlake Boulevard exit. Continue north on Montlake Boulevard, crossing the drawbridge. You will pass Husky Stadium and Hec Edmundson Pavilion on your right. When the road forks, bear right to stay on Montlake Boulevard. Turn right at Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Go one block and turn right onto Clark
Road. At the end of Clark Road you will find the entrance to the E-1 lot.

Directions to Lake Washington Rowing Club
From I-5 N or S: Take exit 169 – NE 45th St / University of Washington exit, and head west on 45th. Continue to Stone Way N (less than one mile). Turn left (south) on Stone Way and continue for approximately a mile. Go
past the last light, at 34th Ave N and Stone Way and veer right (west), onto N. Northlake Way. The boathouse will be on your right, about a third of a mile down.

From 520: Exit at Montlake. Cross the Montlake bridge and get take a left (heading West) at NE Pacific St. Pacific turns into N Pacific which meets N. Northlake Way at 36th St. Follow Northlake Way approximately 1.4 miles. Do not follow the arterial to Stone Way. Instead continue straight on N. Northlake. The boathouse will be on your right, approximately 1/3 mile down the
road

*If coming across the Fremont Bridge from Queen Anne, turn right onto N 34th Street immediately after the bridge, then take your first right down the ramp directly underneath the Aurora Bridge. Take a left at the stop sign. The boathouse will be on your left.