Exit 20 — Formerly Mudd Lake

Sal on I-405 Northbound: Tukwila to Lynnwood · Oct 29, 2026 · 2m

Sal: Between exits twenty and twenty-two. Sal: Totem Lake gave this neighborhood its name, though the lake itself covers only two acres. It sits at the head of a branch of Juanita Creek, inside a park of 17.2 acres, and it has gone by other names: Lake Wittenmyer, Lake Watstine, and Mudd Lake. Its original Native American name has been lost. Peggy: Mudd Lake. Somebody earned their pay renaming that one. Sal: The shopping center beside it was first proposed in 1968, to take advantage of a prominent site on the newly built Interstate 405. It went up on reclaimed wetlands connected to the lake…