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The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by ...
Jones Island State Park is a Washington state park coterminous with Jones Island, one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It is located one mile (1.6 km) west of the southwestern corner of Orcas Island and accessible only by boat. The island has a land area of 188 acres (76 ha) and no resident population.
Parks in San Juan County, Washington (19 P) Pages in category "Protected areas of San Juan County, Washington" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Pages in category "Parks in San Juan County, Washington" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Posey Island State Park is a 1-acre (0.40 ha) public recreation area encompassing Posey Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States. [3] The island is located .25 miles (0.40 km) north of Pearl Island, near Roche Harbor, San Juan Island, and has about 1,000 feet (300 m) of saltwater shoreline on Spieden Channel. [4]
James Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies in Rosario Strait just off the eastern shore of Decatur Island and west of the city of Anacortes. The entire island comprises James Island Marine State Park of the Washington State Park System. It has a land area of 113 acres (46 ha) with 12,335 ...
Blind Island Marine State Park is a public recreation area consisting of the entirety of Blind Island, an island of less than 3 acres (1.2 ha) at the entrance to Shaw Island's Blind Bay in San Juan County, Washington. [3] The island lies one-third of a mile west of the Shaw Island ferry terminal and has 1,280 feet (390 m) of saltwater shoreline ...
West of Puget Sound the tectonic basement of the Coast Range geologic province is the approximately 50 million year (Ma) old marine basalts of the Crescent Formation, part of the Siletzia terrane that underlies western Washington and Oregon. East of Puget Sound the basement of the Cascades province is various pre-Tertiary (older than 65 Ma ...