Federal Way sits between Seattle and Tacoma on Puget Sound, a city of gardens, beaches, and gathering places. The Pacific Bonsai Museum, one of only a few bonsai museums in the country, displays living trees shaped over decades, and the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden fills a wooded valley with blooms each spring. Dash Point State Park offers a sandy Sound beach with views to the Olympics, and the Federal Way Performing Arts and Event Center brings concerts and shows downtown. Steel Lake Park gives families a lake, trails, and summer events.