Blake Island Marine State Park – state parks quest #63
A small island in Puget Sound, Blake Island Marine State Park contains a lot of local history if you know where to look.
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Willapa Hills State Park Trail – state parks quest #36
When I moved to Washington nearly three decades ago, I quickly acquired a small collection of books about the maritime Northwest. One of those books was Robert Michael Pyle’s Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, about the Willapa Hills. This region of southwest Washington, bounded by the Pacific to the west, the Olympic Mountains to the north, the Puget Trough to the east, and the Columbia River to the south, has few features that inspire…
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Westport Light State Park – state parks quest #27
The lighthouse isn’t even inside the park, but it helps tell the story of human history at Point Chehalis.
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Duckabush River Trail
Rain was forecast everywhere in western Washington — except one place. So I went there.