Pacific Beach State Park – state parks quest #29
A perfect place to while away a weekend, Pacific Beach State Park is also an excellent base for exploring the lower Olympic Peninsula.
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Joemma Beach State Park – state parks quest #21
Even on a frigid midwinter day, Joemma Beach’s shoreline and forest enticed us to explore for hours.
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Cape Disappointment State Park – state parks quest #17
Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean, Cape Disappointment is a blend of stunning oceanfront scenery, atmospheric coastal forest, and millennia of history. Hike over the headlands, wander among wind-bent Sitka spruce, ponder centuries of human activity, or just settle down on a piece of driftwood and watch the sun sink below the watery horizon.
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Spencer Spit State Park – state parks quest #12
One of the few marine state parks accessible by car, Spencer Spit State Park is a bikeable, hikeable, boatable gem on Slo-pez Island.
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Paradise Point State Park – state parks quest #11
I’ve driven across the I-5 bridge over Paradise Point State Park hundreds of times. After stopping there for an afternoon, I’ll never again look at that part of the trip the same way.