Fort Ebey State Park – state parks quest #55
Explore a World War II coastal defense fortification and hike or bike around a landscape of glacial kettles at Fort Ebey State Park.
Washington state parks
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Washington state parks
Fort Simcoe Historical State Park – state parks quest #44
Lonely Fort Simcoe stands in the middle of the Yakama Reservation, an artifact emblematic of conflicting cultural ideas about land.
Washington state parks
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.
Washington state parks
Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site – state parks quest #15
At Steptoe, the Indians won the battle. But a few months later, they lost the war. A tiny state park contains a whole lot of history.
American Southwest national parks
Pecos National Historical Park
Take two millennia of Pueblo history. Stir in Spanish invaders. Add a major Civil War battle, the birth of modern archaeology, and a 1940s movie star, and you’ve got Pecos National Historical Park.