Marlene Finley is a retired US Forest Service and National Park Service Ranger living in Anacortes. This time of year, we often look up to marvel at the changing colors of the season; the golden glow of changing leaves in the tree canopy, but have you …
Memorial/Dedication Plaques
Deception Pass State Park, the most visited park in Washington state, hosts people from all over to come and experience nature’s beauty firsthand. Deception Pass Park Foundation has begun offering two giving programs, memorial and dedication plaques that honor …
Volunteer News
Fall is in full swing and winter is fast approaching, the visitors and campers are heading home which means there are several areas that “we”, as volunteers, can help with in the park: The Adopt-A-Trail, Adopt-A-Beach, Gardening/Landscaping and Painting …
Wild Ginger
by Marlene Finley In a shady forest with rich, moist soil beneath your feet, you may find this lush green ground cover plant with large heart shaped leaves and a delicious scent. Even better, between the months of April and July, thimble size flowers of a …
Time to Update!
By Jason Armstrong, Area Manager If you have driven by the park’s office at Deception Pass State Park your reaction might well be that it is overgrown and unmanaged. What I have learned over the past three years as Park Manager is that most of the …
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 …
Heart of the Foundation
With summer winding down and fall fast approaching, there are several areas that “we” as volunteers can help the in the park. Such as, The Lake Store, Adopt-A-Trail, Adopt-A-Beach, and some painting projects, just to name a few. For those of you who are not a …
Volunteer News
Fall is in full swing and winter is fast approaching, the visitors and campers are heading home which means there are several areas that “we”, as volunteers, can help with in the park: The Adopt-A-Trail, Adopt-A-Beach, Gardening/Landscaping and Painting …
Opportunities
By Jason Armstrong, Area Manager Deception Pass State Park, its staff, and volunteers are seeking a grant to fully fund a program we will be calling “Educational Transitions” through the No Child Left Inside program. This program will be focused on two …
Salish Sea Anemones
Sea anemones get a bad rap. Not only do they have to share their name (“anemos” is the Greek word for wind) with a flower species, compared to a translucent, pulsing jellyfish; a brightly colored, pincered crab; or an alien-like, squishy sea slug, they don’t …
Hiking North Beach Trail
By Jack Hartt People ask me which of the trails we write about is my favorite. I always joke that it is the last trail I just walked, whatever trail that may be, as I am captured by whatever that trail has to offer. But when given a choice, there are a …
The Black-Tailed Deer
By Matthew Klope, Retired Wildlife Biologist We have all seen the Black-tailed deer throughout the park, but did you know that the Black-tailed deer is really a Mule deer? Well, a subspecies of the Mule deer. There are actually six subspecies of the Mule …
