Bellingham WA - Silver Beach Neighborhood
The Silver Beach Neighborhood includes the northern end of Lake Whatcom, where on both sides of the lake are Bellingham’s city limits. Residents in the Silver Beach neighborhood enjoy one of Bellingham’s main recreation areas in Lake Whatcom, which is one of the largest lakes north of Seattle. One can enjoy boating, kayaking, canoeing, fishing, and swimming on Lake Whatcom.
The Silver Beach neighborhood offers a range of housing options, from upscale, lakefront homes along North shore Drive to rental properties and single-family housing further off the lake.
One of Silver Beach neighborhoods attraction is the recreation of Bloedel-Donovan Park with a public boat ramp, supervised swimming, community programs and events.
Silver Beach has only one small retail area within the neighborhood which has a small grocery store/mini-mart. At this retail outlet there are also a couple of other small retail stores.
However, Silver Beach residents can enjoy shopping at nearby Barkley Village shopping center, with a Haggen supermarket for groceries. Barkely Village also includes several restraunts, small shops, banks, a WECU branch, several offices and boutiques. Barkley Village is currently in a huge commercial boom of construction activity.
Another retail development within a short drive from the neighborhood is the Sunset Square shopping center, with a K Mart Discount Store, Rite-Aid Pharmacy, The Fair Market grocery store and a multiplex shopping center. The Lowe’s Home center was added a few years ago along with a bunch of restaurants. This area is really growing with the addition of Banner Bank, WECU and a new shopping complex since this post was added.
The Fred Meyer Shopping Center and Lakeway Center, both of 
which include major supermarkets, are easy stops along Lakeway Drive, one of the main routes into the city’s core. Trader Joe’s is now open as well off of Alabama St. and James St.
The schools that kids attend depending largely on where they live in the neighborhood. Most children attend Silver Beach Elementary School, which is located within the neighborhood. Some kids though do attend Geneva Elementary School who lives south of Alabama St. The same division is used for middle school kids in that kids south of Alabama attend Kulshan Middle School and ones on the north side of Alabama St. attend Whatcom Middle School. High School students south of Alabama St. attend Bellingham High School and ones north attend Sqaulicum High School.
The Silver Beach area also has it’s own site with the Silver Beach Neighborhood Association.