Fort Worden State Park

We recently spent the weekend in Port Townsend staying at one of Seattle TourSaver’s 2010 partners’ the Clam Cannery Hotel.  We were able to explore the area and found Fort Worden State Park which is just minutes outside of the downtown PT. Fort Worden is a 434-acre multi-use park with over two miles of saltwater shoreline and a wide variety of services and facilities. The park rests on a high bluff overlooking Puget Sound.

When you drive into the park you see beautifully restored officer’s homes that can be rented for family vacations, conferences, reunions and retreats. Visitors may choose from century-old officers’ housing, a castle, special one-room houses and large dormitories. There are 35 housing units available for renting year round.

Fort Worden offers dozens of outstanding day-use and picnic areas. We explored the park for hours and still there was so much more for us to see. There are vistas on the high centennial cliffs of Artillery Hill, walks to Pt. Wilson Lighthouse or the Port Townsend Marine Science Center on the end of the pier.  Every where we went there were numerous day-use picnic tables and fireboxes provide the excellent picnic spot.