Exit 24 — Where the Crows Went

Sal on I-405 Southbound: Lynnwood to Tukwila · Oct 29, 2026 · 1m

Sal: Between exits twenty-three and twenty-four. Sal: State Route 522 meets the freeway near the delta of North Creek. The state bought 58 acres there in 1994 for a shared campus of the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College, and restored the creek's floodplain as it built. Classes opened in 2000. Sal: For years, thousands of crows commuted to the campus wetland every evening to roost. Counters saw more than 14,000 in 2016 and around 20,000 at the peak in 2022, when the sky turned black at dusk. By January 2025 the count was zero. Many had simply moved to a new roost in the…