I visited Washington’s Larabee State Park in February 2015 with friends Adoria, Jess, and Maya. The park is just south of Bellingham, an easy drive along the breathtaking coast. You will find trails and beaches, all with excellent views of the San Juan Islands out past Bellingham Bay and Samish Bay. And it’s great spot for a picnic.
Nice person in Portland, Oregon, and beyond.
After our stop at Eunice Lake, we traveled onward to Sunrise, Washington, which is the highest spot in the park you can drive to. From its lodge, hiking trails spider off in all directions for easy hikes that all offer truly breathtaking views of Mount Rainier and its surrounding foothills. Cascade beauty! As we drove up to the site, a thick layer of clouds sat around the mountain, but as we started hiking the cloud cover quickly burned off.
Just south of the town of Coos Bay is one of the most wonderful destinations on the southern Oregon coast, Shore Acres State park. Shore Acres is the site of an old estate, whose wonderful gardens are still maintained, and which sits on sandstone cliffs above the Pacific. Truly spectacular ocean views combine with truly spectacular sandstone formations, wow...
A wonderful urban oasis right in town with nice little trails and picnic areas…
A spectacular reservoir that rests amid Washington’s Cascades mountains near the North Cascades National Park…
