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Illahee State Park is an 82-acre (33 ha) Washington state park located in the hamlet of Illahee, just north of East Bremerton, on Port Orchard Bay, part of Puget Sound. The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the Native language Chinuk Wawa. The park was established when Kitsap County donated 13 acres to the state in 1934.
Illahee is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States, [1] between Bremerton and Silverdale. It is home to Illahee State Park and other local parks. The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the nearly-extinct pidgin language Chinuk Wawa , commonly spoken in the area until the early twentieth century.
Midas Johnson, 8, attempts to do a flip off the dock while cooling off from the triple digit heat with family members at Illahee State Park in Bremerton in this 2021 Kitsap Sun file photo.
Kankakee River Water Trail: IN: 133 mi (214 km) Kansas River Trail: KS: 173 mi (278 km) Kitsap Peninsula Water Trail: WA: 371 mi (597 km) Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Water Trail: MN: 76 mi (122 km) Mississippi River Water Trail: IL, MO: 121 mi (195 km) Missouri National Recreational River Water Trail: IA, NE, SD: 147 mi (237 km)
On the left is their state of the art magic carpet used to deliver the tubers back up the run from the bottom. Snow tubing is rumored to have begun as far back as the 1820s in the Alpine Mountains. Tubing on snow is a wintertime activity that is similar to sledding. This kind of tubing is almost always performed on a hill or slope, using ...
Shortly before intersecting with the Kansas River, the Big Blue discharges its waters into a reservoir called Tuttle Creek Lake, which lies slightly northeast of Manhattan. The reservoir is a man-made flood-control measure, held back by a dam composed of the limestone , silt , and gypsum dredged out of the floodplain by bulldozers left to rust ...
The property was donated to the state in 2005 and officially opened to the public on September 4, 2010. Located on the bank of the Kansas River in Topeka, the Kaw River State Park is located adjacent and west of Cedar Crest (location of the Kansas Governor's mansion, and the well developed 244-acre (99 ha) MacLennan Park) and just NE of the ...
The Haskell-Baker Wetlands (also known as the Baker Wetlands) is a nature preserve and artificially sustained wetland, [1] spanning approximately 927 acres (3.8 km 2) [2] south of Lawrence, Kansas, United States. It is associated with the Wakarusa River and sustained by levees and flood controls built in the 1990s. [3]