WA State Park Deception Pass State Park (Oak Harbor)

Large beautiful campground.

Wonderful trail system leads to beaches, mountain tops, swimming holes and dunes.

The beaches were beautiful and we saw a constant stream of boats and people fishing.

This is more correctly called Deception Passage since it refers to the waterway and not a path across mountains. Wonderful park with hookups, showers, trails, beaches, swimming beach on a freshwater lake, dunes, tidepools and more. The only drawback is that all of this attracts LOTS of people. The campground isn't as packed as you might think though and as soon as we got away from the places easily reached by car the number of people on the trails dropped off dramatically. I'd love to come here when the rhododendron's are blooming, they are all over the hills in this park and they are huge.

 

Re: WA, Deception Pass State Park

Yes, it's great park, but as noted very popular.. after season they close parts of it down, but nice anyway..