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Friday Harbor is located on the east side of San Juan Island facing the San Juan Channel. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.16 square miles (5.59 km 2), of which, 2.09 square miles (5.41 km 2) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km 2) is water.
San Juan County is a county in the Salish Sea in the far northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, its population was 17,788. [1] The county seat and only incorporated town is Friday Harbor, [2] on San Juan Island.
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [2] as of the 2020 census.
Washington State Ferries serves Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island from terminals in Anacortes, Washington, and Sidney, British Columbia. [40] Puget Sound Express provides passenger-only service from Port Townsend, on the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island.
Beechcraft Model 18 carrying freight to Friday Harbor from the Washington mainland. Friday Harbor Airport covers an area of 145 acres (59 ha) which contains one runway (16/34) with a 3,402 x 75 ft (1,037 x 23 m) asphalt pavement. In 2016, the airport had 44,840 aircraft operations, an average of 123 per day: 72% general aviation and 29% air taxi.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 19 of those are found in San Juan County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Lime Kiln Point State Park is a 42-acre Washington state park on the western shore of San Juan Island in the San Juan archipelago.The park is considered one of the best places in the world to view wild orcas from a land-based facility. [2]
Brown Island is a small, private island in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies just offshore to the east-northeast of the town of Friday Harbor, Washington. The island has a land area of approximately 70 acres (28 ha) and on January 1, 2008, it had a resident full-time population of 10 people.