SR 167 is the Valley Freeway spine for a lot of south King County commuting. WSDOT cameras sit on 167 itself and at the I-405 interchange where the two routes trade delay.
If your job hop is Auburn-Renton-Bellevue shaped, these tiles matter more than a downtown Seattle tourist cam.
Open SR 167 live
Jump to the Seattle grid with search applied. Public WSDOT stills, free, no account.
Watch caméras en directCameras on SR 167
Expect multi-lane freeway stills, ramp queues at the 405 junction, and milepost labels that make it easy to match your usual exit.
When 405 is a parking lot, 167 often shows the backup forming before your app renames the incident.
Matched public cameras for this page:
- SR 167 at MP 17.9: S 277th St, West (South)
- SR 167 at MP 18.5: S 269th St (South)
- SR 167 at MP 17.9: S 277th St, East (South)
- SR 167 at MP 18.9: Green River (South)
- SR 167 at MP 19.6: Willis St (South)
- SR 167 at MP 20.3: S 238th St (South)
Labels come from WSDOT highway cameras. Search the grid with the same strings when a name is long.
When the corridor gets ugly
Weekday peaks are long on 167. Midday can still clog at the interchanges after a wreck.
Rain is normal here; spray and short following distances show up clearly on the stills.
Weekday peaks run roughly 6:30-9 a.m. and 3:30-6:30 p.m. pacific. Rain and marine layer haze are common; night contrast drops on elevated spans.
How to pull the live tiles
Open Seattle caméras en direct. Try search text SR 167 first. Refresh is about every 60 seconds. The snapshot behind this grid lists 476 cameras for Seattle.
Deep link form: /seattle/?q=SR%20167. Map view helps when you think in exits instead of names. Hide tiles that stay black.
Field habits
Search "SR 167" and pin your home exit plus the 405 interchange. Two tiles beat five random ones.
If 167 midspan is moving and only the 405 ramp is red, stay on 167 longer.
Keep SR 167 at MP 17.9: S 277th St, West and SR 167 at MP 18.5: S 269th St side by side when this route decides your day. If only the downstream tile is packed, the problem may still be local.
How to read a still without kidding yourself
Look at gap length between cars first. Tight gaps and brake lights mean the next minute is slow even if one lane flickers. Empty asphalt with a single truck can be a temporary block, not a corridor failure. That is why a second camera exists.
On Seattle, images update about every 60 seconds from WSDOT highway cameras. If a frame looks frozen, wait one cycle before you declare the feed dead. Night and weather cut contrast; movement still usually shows on major roads.
For a corridor page like SR 167, bias toward the merge that ruins your trip. A clear mid-segment tile with a packed ramp tile means you still lose time at the ramp.
Hard limits
Some cameras sit on 405 looking at 167. Read the label. The useful signal is still the queue you can see.
These feeds exist for traffic operations. They are public roadside stills, not private security video and not a cinema stream. Do not try to read plates or faces. Use them to time a departure.
Source and coverage
Source on file: WSDOT highway cameras. Camera count in the current Seattle snapshot: 476. Some units drop offline without a public ticket. The grid lets you hide them so they stop cluttering the page.
Search by route (i-5, i-90, sr 520) or landmark (ship canal, floating bridge). Area filters appear when the snapshot carries area tags. Favorites stay in local browser storage on this device only.
A note on names and search
Agency labels are written for operators, not for marketing. If "SR 167" returns nothing, shorten to the road shield or a cross street from the list above. The Seattle search box matches substrings in those official names.
When two labels look alike, open both for one refresh cycle. The wrong camera wastes less time than a wrong ramp.
Mobile use without losing the plot
Turn the phone sideways on wide freeway frames. Save the Seattle grid to your home screen if this is a daily check. Cellular data on a bridge approach is a bad moment to discover a huge uncached grid; open your favorites first.
Why this page exists next to the raw grid
The raw Seattle grid is complete and a little hostile if you do not already know the agency labels. A focused page for SR 167 is a short path: primary search string, a handful of matched cameras, and the timing notes that match how people actually drive here.
If you already live on the corridor, skip the prose and keep the deep link. If you do not, read the matched list once so the abbreviations stop looking like noise.
Share the deep link with anyone meeting you. Arguments about "traffic" go faster when both people see the same still.
Nearby guides
Full grid: Seattle cameras. City index: all cities.
WSDOT already publishes the images. This page is a shorter path to the ones that match "sr 167 caméra de circulation".