Phantom Lake

{{Short description|Lake in Bellevue, Washington, USA}}

{{For|the lake in South Dakota|Phantom Lake (South Dakota)}}

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| name = Phantom Lake

| image = File:2017 Phantom Lake image 1.jpg

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| caption = View east from Phantom Lake Park in 2017

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| location = Bellevue, Washington

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| area = {{Convert|63|acre|abbr=on}}

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| shore = {{convert|2.6|mi}}

| elevation = {{convert|250|ft|abbr=on}}

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Phantom Lake is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, east of Seattle. A {{convert|2.6|mi|adj=on}} pedestrian trail circles the lake, and according to the city government, Bellevue's oldest and largest trees are there.{{cite web|url=http://www.myparksandrecreation.com/ParksTrails/Details.aspx?pid=100|publisher=MyParksAndRecreation.com|title=Phantom Lake Trail}}

Located about a mile (1.6 km) north of Interstate 90 and west of nearby Lake Sammamish, its surface elevation is approximately {{convert|250|ft}} above sea level.

Historically, Phantom Lake once drained to the north through Larsen Lake and the Kelsey Creek basin. Nineteenth-century farmer Henry Thode redirected the Phantom Lake outlet to Lake Sammamish, creating Weowna Creek in the process.{{cite web | title=Weowna Creek Restoration -- High Tech - Low Impact | url=http://www.scn.org/savelake/newsltrspring9/index2.htm#Weowna%20Creek%20Restoration| accessdate=2007-08-15 }} Today, Phantom Lake has a surface area of {{convert|63|acre|km2}} and a maximum depth of {{convert|45|ft}}.{{cite web | title=Lakes of King County | url=http://www.kingcounty.gov/services/environment/water-and-land/lakes/lakes-of-king-county.aspx| accessdate=2017-11-22}}

Bellevue Airfield, closed in 1983, was nearby to the southwest; the approach to runway 20 was along the lake's southeastern shore.