When I moved to Bellevue after graduating from the UW, it was a quiet place and Bellevue ended just east of here at what is now the Coca Cola plant. What a change the gentrfication of Bellevue has made to this lake, in addition to the name change!
Park in front of the Crab Pot. There is a short social trail going up the slope from the parking to the guard rail. You can use that trail, or go east to the street corner and access the cache from the street sidewalk.