Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Olympia, WA
The trails give excellent birdwatching vantages of the refuge’s sloughs, dikes, wetland pools, and extensive mud and tidal flats. When the tide is out, take to the boardwalk traversing glistening mud and salt flats.
Twanoh State Park
Hood Canal, WA
The more than a half mile of beach on Hood Canal is where the good birdwatching is at.
Jarrell Cove State Park
Harstine Island, WA
An easy one mile trail loops the park’s periphery through quiet woods and along a bluff above the two slender finger inlets making up Jarrell Cove.
Dosewallips State Park
Brinnon, WA
Enjoy more than 1000 acres of prime wildlife habitat along the Dosewallips River at its delta on Hood Canal.
Fort Flagler Historical State Park
Marrowstone Island, WA
Owing to its location and surrounded by water on three sides, the park is a great spot for watching marine birds.
Miller Peninsula State Park
Sequim, WA
2800 acres of undeveloped beaches, bluffs, and forestland on the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Sequim Bay and Discovery Bay.
Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge
Sequim, WA
The eelgrass beds in Dungeness Bay host some of the state’s largest concentrations of wintering harlequin ducks, scaups, black brants, black-bellied plovers and dunlins.
Cape Flattery
Neah Bay, WA
(TRAIL CURRENTLY CLOSED) From viewpoints teetering high above the surf, look fora variety of shorebirds.
Lake Ozette-Cape Alava
Pacific Coast, WA
9.4 miles roundtrip loop including lake, forests, bogs and beach walking.
Lake Quinault Rainforest
Quinault, WA
Follow the Quinault National Recreation Trails to waterfalls, cedar bogs, giant primeval trees, lakeshore and crystal-clear creeks.