| Sequim Bay State Park is a year-round, 92-acre marine camping park with 4,909 feet of saltwater coast in the Sequim "rainshadow," just inside Puget Sound on the Olympic Peninsula. The bay is calm, the air is dry and interpretive opportunities await visitors. The park provides two kitchen shelters without electricity, plus 20 sheltered and 15 unsheltered picnic tables. Boating facilities include 424 feet of saltwater moorage space, six mooring buoys, a boat-launch ramp and a Port a-potty dump station. Facility use is first come, first served, with continuous moorage limited to three consecutive nights. The park is part of the Marine Parks and Boat Moorage system. Camping facilities include 26 utility campsites, 60 standard campsites, three primitive sites, a reservable group camp, 53 picnic sites, 3 kitchen shelters and six comfort stations. In addition, the environmental learning center includes eight Adirondack shelters and a large kitchen and dining hall. Sequim Bay State Park is part of the Campsite Reservation System. Camping, picnicking, fishing, boating, clamming, scuba diving, beach walking, marine life study, field and group sports, tennis, hiking, flora study, and bird watching are some of the activities enjoyed in the park. Facilities are reservable. The upper kitchen shelter is near swings, horseshoe pits and a tunnel that connects to a baseball field and tennis courts. The lower shelter has a view of Sequim Bay. The park has 424 feet of summer moorage (removed in winter). "Sequim" is a Native American word for "quiet waters." Two natural overlapping sandbars protect the bay waters from the rough waves and currents of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These same sandbars also protected the area from discovery by the first three expeditions that ventured into the Puget Sound. |
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