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Stay Healthy Streets

Update: What's next for Stay Healthy Streets?

In the last year, we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of people outside—walking, skateboarding, biking, and rolling down the streets—and engaging with their neighborhoods in a big way.

Thanks to the outspoken support of neighborhood advocates like you, the City introduced Stay Healthy Streets last year, a few miles at a time until we had over 25 miles in 13 locations around the city, as well as two sister programs: Keep Moving Streets (recreation space near parks) and Stay Healthy Blocks (neighbor-run DIY Stay Healthy Streets). And they have been a HUGE hit!

Communities have rallied around their local open streets, and are eager to make them permanent. Thanks to popular demand last summer, Mayor Durkan committed to making 20 miles of the pilot Stay Healthy Streets program permanent, starting with streets in Greenwood (1st Ave NW) and Lake City. Now, the City is thinking through how to fulfill this promise to fund and construct permanent improvements. Get more details about what's next for these beloved streets and how you can play a role, in our Spring 2021 Update.

25 Miles of Stay Healthy Streets, and counting!

Have you been seeing Stay Healthy Streets signs around your neighborhood? These are usually as simple as a “closed street” sign, an orange cone, and a blue sign, letting folks know that the street is closed to regular through-traffic, but OPEN for people to walk, bike, roll, and skate in. With ideas and encouragement from our grassroots advocacy organization, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, the city of Seattle began implementing Stay Healthy Streets in neighborhoods across the city in April 2020.

  • Aurora-Licton Springs [map]
  • Ballard [map]
  • Beacon Hill North [map]
  • Beacon Hill South [map]
  • Bell Street between 1st and 5th avenues
  • Central Area [map]
  • Delridge/Highland Park [map]
  • Golden Gardens [map]
  • Greenwood [map]
  • Lake City Way 27th Ave NE [map]
  • Lake City Way 37th Ave NE [map]
  • Mt. Baker/Colombia City/Hillman City [map]
  • Othello/Rainier Beach [map]
  • Wallingford [map]
  • West Seattle/High Point [map]

Keep Moving Streets at Seattle's Parks