After a long winter season of limited access, the road and parking lot at Little North Beach are open again in Deception Pass State Park. Put his magnificent corner of the Northwest on your “to do” list immediately.
Fishing Deception Pass, Little North Beach in the background.
I had been waiting for a harbor seal to surface again when I noticed a strange bubbling pattern in the water off Little North Beach. I kept watching, expecting the seal … but then scuba diver Jan Kocian surfaced. He said he had spent an hour in the pass area under the North Whidbey section […]
Snow on trail leading from the Highway 20 parking lot of Deception Pass State Park to Little North Beach below, North Whidbey Island.
With the North Beach parking lot at Deception Pass State Park closed for the season, many hikers opt to access this area from a trail descending from the North Whidbey bridge parking area. Views from the trail are well worth the energy expended to hike down … and up again.
During the course of my Monday hike at Deception Pass State Park I gathered a number of photos of damage from a recent windstorm that featured extraordinary high powered gusts. Many trees in the park, some quite large, were scraped, broken and uprooted. With downed trees on my mind, my eye was drawn to exposed […]