Hunts Point is a town in the Eastside, a region of King County, Washington, United States, and part of the Seattle metropolitan area.

The town is on a small peninsula surrounded by Lake Washington, and is near the suburbs of Medina (to the southwest), Clyde Hill (to the south), Yarrow Point (on another peninsula to the east), and Kirkland (to the northeast), as well as the city of Bellevue (to the east).

He wanted the property so that he could cut down the tall evergreen trees that grew out at the end, obstructing his view of Lake Washington.

[4] Around 1900, the property was taken over by Puget Sound National Bank and sold to a group of Seattle men who used it as a family retreat for Sunday picnics and summer camping.

[citation needed] Before the creation of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Interstate 90 floating bridges across Lake Washington, residents commuted to Seattle via the Gazelle, one of several ferries on Lake Washington.

That same year, the women of Hunts Point formed the charitable organization The Eastside Circle of the Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission (later called The Overlake Service League), which continues to this day.

[citation needed] Hunts Point was incorporated as a city on August 22, 1955.

[citation needed] The Wetherill Nature Preserve was created by a donation of land in 1988.

[5] In the 1950s, Stan Sayres, owner of the famous Slo Mo unlimited hydroplane, housed the boat at the end of Hunts Point Road.

George W. Bush made a fund-raising stop in the town during each of his presidential campaigns.

[9] In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump 161 votes to 116 in Hunts Point.