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Renton's Clam Lights

Renton, WA · Holiday

When

December 5, 2026 – January 4, 2027

Where

Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park · Renton · WA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A waterfront holiday light display on Lake Washington at Gene Coulon Park, with a tree lighting and Santa's arrival kicking off the season. The playfully named display nods to Renton's Ivar's seafood heritage and runs nightly through early January.

The history within reach

• Renton's Clam Lightssame spot

  A waterfront holiday light display on Lake Washington at Gene Coulon Park, with a tree lighting and Santa's arrival kicking off the season.

• Lakeview School, the two room schoolhouse from Mercer Island's ferry years2.6 mi

  This school opened in 1918 to hold all eight grades of Mercer Island's children, back when the island was reached only by steamer and had no bridge.

• Wizards of the Coast and Magic3.1 mi

  A game company run from a basement published Magic: The Gathering in 1993, inventing the collectible card game.

• Coal Creek and the mines that fuelled Seattle before Seattle amounted to much4.0 mi

  Surveyors found coal along this creek in January 1864 and the mining town of Newcastle grew up over the seams running under what is now Cougar Mountain.

• Boeing founded at the Red Barn4.5 mi

  A timber heir built seaplanes in a boatyard on the Duwamish after deciding he could do better than the aircraft he had flown in.