Renton sits where the Cedar River meets Lake Washington, a city shaped first by coal and timber and then by flight. The Boeing Renton Factory has built 737 jets on the lake shore for generations, and the Renton History Museum, housed in an old fire station, tells how miners, mill workers, and machinists built the town around it. Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park gives families a sandy shore on the lake, and the Cedar River Trail carries walkers and cyclists through green corridors on the city's edge.