Politics & Government
Woodinville's Wellington Hills Golf Course to Be Turned into Park
The nine-hole course was sold by the University of Washington to Snohomish County for parkland as part King County's mitigation for the Brightwater sewage treatment plant.
The Wellington Hills golf course in Woodinville will close in September after being sold by the University of Washington to Snohomish County for $9.7 million. The county plans to convert the public course to parkland and athletic fields.
The plan is part of a mitigation agreement with King County for the Brightwater sewage treatment plant which opened last year about a mile from the golf course in Wellington Hills, according to Brian Perry, Snohomish executive.
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The University bought the Wellington Hills Golf and Country Club in 1990, with the idea of opening a satellite campus on the site. The UW built its branch in Bothell instead and the continued to allow the golf course to operate.
The facility, northeast of Kirkland off state Route 522, is one of the cheapest places in the area to play golf, according to the Seattle Times.
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