I-5 Colonnade

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Park terrain under the interstate freeway.

I-5 Colonnade in Seattle, Washington, United States, is a 7.5-acre city park underneath Interstate 5 connecting the Capitol Hill and Eastlake neighborhoods, which were divided by the freeway in the 1960s. It stretches south of E. Howe Street to E. Garfield Street between Franklin Avenue E. and Lakeview Boulevard E. It was created in 2005.

The I-5 Colonnade Mountain Bike Skills Park will be located on roughly 2 acres of I-5 Colonnade's 7.5 total acres. The bike park's Novice Area just opened on Sept 8 2007. Construction on Phase 2 (Advanced Area) will begin in Oct 2007, to be completed by Oct 2008.