How do you celebrate the 100th birthday of anything, let alone one of Washington most visited state park? That was the monumental challenge the Deception Pass Park Foundation undertook over a year ago. Its solution - spread the celebration throughout the year …
East Cranberry Lake
Excerpt from Two Hands and a Shovel by Jack Hartt When Deception Pass first became a state park, the eastern shores of Cranberry Lake were already popular with local communities as a gathering place for swimming, picnicking, and neighborhood …
Cornet Bay
-Excerpt from Two Hands and a Shovel by Jack Hartt Cornet Bay hides just inside Deception Pass, on the southern shore.The shores of the bay sheltered encampments of Swinomish tribal people for centuries. Caucasians homesteaded the bay in the mid-1900s, …
East Shore Beach Wall
This wall will become the edge of the swimming beach on the shore of east Cranberry Lake. For many years, this was perhaps the most popular attraction at Deception Pass Park. This rock wall can still be found today but the swim beach has been passed over for …
John Tursi Commemorative Sign
Deception Pass State Park was home to two camps of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members during the 1930s and early 1940s. They built trails, benches, kitchen shelters, wash rooms, and caretaker residences that are still in use today. One of the largest …
