The Summit at Green Lake — where 11 people actually get to vacation together without stepping on each other.
Wake up to Rainier on the horizon, walk five minutes to the Green Lake loop before the city's up, then come home to coffee on a rooftop deck with a gas fire table that'll be perfect to lite at 10 p.m. when the Seattle skyline goes pink. This is a 5-bedroom, 4-full-bath house built for groups that want one roof, enough bathrooms that no one has to wait, and a game room loud enough that grandma can sleep three floors up.
━━━ About This Space ━━━
Three levels, thoughtfully divided so families can split up without losing each other. The lower level is the kids-and-late-night floor: a full rec room with air hockey, shuffleboard, and foosball, plus its own bedroom suite with a full bath. The main floor is where you gather — open kitchen, dining table for the whole crew, family room off the back, and bedroom 5 doubling as a playroom or sixth-adult overflow. Upstairs: three bedrooms, two full baths, and a dedicated laundry room (there's a second laundry downstairs too — yes, two washer/dryer setups, because groups of 11 generate laundry).
Bedroom 1 is the primary suite with its own bath. Bedrooms 2 and 3 share a bath. Bedroom 4 has king sleeping. Bedroom 5 works as a playroom with a pull-out, or a fifth adult bedroom depending on the trip. There are three captioned floor plans in the photo gallery — you'll know exactly which room is whose before you even arrive.
The rooftop deck is the headline amenity after the game room: gas fire table, mountain and lake-adjacent sightlines, and enough seating that the whole house can fit up top for sunset. If it's cold, the fire table runs, and if it's raining, this is the Pacific Northwest — there's a full covered deck downstairs too.
━━━ Who It's For ━━━
• Multigenerational trips. Grandparents get a bed on the main floor, kids get the rec room, everyone still eats dinner together.
• Birthday / milestone weekends. The rooftop + game room combination carries an entire weekend's worth of activity without anyone leaving the property.
• Seahawks, Kraken, or Huskies gameday groups. Two living rooms = two screens. Four full baths = no line.
• Remote-work retreats. Dedicated workspace, fast Wi-Fi, a kitchen to actually cook in, and a 10-minute drive to downtown or UW.
• Graduation weekends (UW is 10 minutes south).
━━━ Location ━━━
Green Lake is Seattle's most walkable neighborhood. Green Lake Park and the 2.8-mile loop trail are a 5-minute walk — locals run it, swim in summer, rent paddleboards, ice-skate (at the rink) in winter. Immediately around the park: bakeries, Spud Fish & Chips, Pee Wee's Pies, a farmers market on summer Wednesdays. A 10-minute drive gets you to Ballard Locks, Gas Works Park, UW, or the Fremont Troll. Downtown Seattle is 15 minutes by car; SeaTac is 30. I-5 access at 65th or 85th, and street parking is plentiful in addition to the free driveway parking on-site.
━━━ Guest Access ━━━
Keypad self check-in any time after 4 p.m. — no lockbox, no key handoff, no waiting on us. The full house is yours: all three levels, the rooftop, the deck, the backyard, and both laundry areas. I (Kirsten) am a local Seattle Superhost and a co-host / property manager at Summit Stays — if you need anything during your stay, I'm one text away and respond within an hour.
━━━ Parking ━━━
Free private driveway fits one vehicle comfortably; additional vehicles park on the residential street out front (no permits required, no time limits on this block). We'll send the exact parking note in your arrival message.
━━━ House Rules ━━━
Check-in 4 p.m. / check-out 10 a.m. · 11 overnight guests max · 15 people max including day visitors · No smoking anywhere on the property · No pets · No parties or events · Quiet hours after 10 p.m. (residential neighborhood). Registration: STR-OPLI-24-000545.
Message me with any question — including things like "does the garage fit our van" or "what's the closest grocery" — before you book. I'd rather over-communicate than have a surprise on day one.