Hiking Guide
WTA's hiking guide is the most comprehensive database of hikes in Washington, and comprises content written by local hiking experts and user submitted information. All data is vetted by WTA staff. This resource is made possible by the donations of WTA members.
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Results List
35 HikesBarnum Point
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.75 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 300 feet
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Highest Point
- 130 feet
Enjoy a series of easy forest trails in this new Island County park. Descend to the beach at both ends of the bluff. Optionally, tide permitting, hike the entire length of the mile-long beach. Either way, finish your hike on more forest trails.
Deception Pass State Park - Hoypus Point
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 6.4 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 600 feet
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Highest Point
- 400 feet
A great trail for solitude and a cloudy winter day, this is a forest walk, complete with old growth giants, mature alder and a green understory of sword ferns. A tree huggers hike! This loop will give you a nice variety of forest ecosystems.
Price Sculpture Forest
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 0.6 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 120 feet
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Highest Point
- 273 feet
Combine local art with nature on a stroll through Price Sculpture Forest.
Kettles Trail System
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 35.0 miles of trails
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Highest Point
- 200 feet
Can't decide between walking along an ocean bluff with water stretched out for miles before you or wandering through forest under the drooping branches of moss-covered cedars? The Kettles Trail System on Whidbey Island offers you an opportunity to do both!
Deception Pass State Park - Goose Rock
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 4.3 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 484 feet
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Highest Point
- 484 feet
Deception Pass State Park is one of the most popular Washington state parks and it is easy to see why. There are beautiful beaches, mature woodlands, great views, lakes, and a beautifully built bridge high on rocks above two narrow waterways. This nice trail will take you through all of this.
Anacortes Community Forest Lands - Mount Erie
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 5.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 1,000 feet
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Highest Point
- 1,300 feet
At 1300 feet, Mount Erie marks the high point of Fidalgo Island. While it's accessible via a road, the hike up to the summit is heart-pounding, and makes an excellent outing for the day, or just a few hours.
Admiralty Inlet Natural Area Preserve
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.3 miles of trails
This nature preserve represents the best of Washington all in one 86-acre parcel on the edge of Whidbey Island.
Monroe Landing Low Tide Trail
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 7.0 miles, one-way
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Elevation Gain
- 30 feet
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Highest Point
- 30 feet
A very rocky hike with breaks of sandy beach along a beautiful coast that's full of marine life between the towns of Oak Harbor and Coupeville on Whidbey Island.
Ebey's Landing
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 5.6 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 260 feet
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Highest Point
- 260 feet
Perched on a bluff overlooking majestic Puget Sound is the unique acreage of Ebey’s Landing. In addition to the Bluff Trail, visitors can experience the seaport town of Coupeville, observe working farms, and get their fill of wildlife viewing, all in a tiny National Park on Whidbey Island.
South Whidbey State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 3.5 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 200 feet
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Highest Point
- 400 feet
With commanding views of the Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains, this 347-acre park also has opportunities for bird watching, clamming and crabbing, and offers 3.5 miles of hiking trails in old-growth forest and along a stretch of unspoiled saltwater shoreline.
Anacortes Community Forest Lands - Big Beaver Pond
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 175 feet
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Highest Point
- 450 feet
Enjoy a nearly-level forest walk with close-up views of beaver dams and likely sightings of water fowl including (in season) trumpeter swans, plus kingfishers, woodpeckers, and owls.
Anacortes Community Forest Lands - Heart Lake
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.86 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 130 feet
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Highest Point
- 620 feet
While there is not a trail all the way around the lake proper, it’s possible to do a loop hike around this lovely little lake just across the road from Mount Erie and Sugarloaf in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Formerly a state park, this area was transferred to the City of Anacortes in 2002, and now the trails that loop and bend around this little lake are accessible to residents and visitors without requiring a Discover pass.
Double Bluff
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 4.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 259 feet
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Highest Point
- 105 feet
Looking for a great day at the beach with the dog? Double Bluff is the place to be! Time it just right and at low tide you could walk for miles!
Del Fairfax Preserve
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 1.3 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 166 feet
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Highest Point
- 306 feet
Featuring a 1.3 mile lollipop loop, this preserve takes visitors through a forest of Douglas fir and salal to an open meadow.
Deception Pass State Park - West Beach Sand Dunes
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 0.8 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 31 feet
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Highest Point
- 32 feet
A stroll along the sand dunes of Deception State Park's West Beach offers a glimpse into this important geologic feature. The way is easy and interpretive signs provide information about the interesting seaside vegetation unique to this area.
Morgan Tidelands
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
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Highest Point
- 0 feet
Enjoy this 2.5 mile long beach hike thanks to a donation from the Morgan Family to Whidbey Camano Land Trust.
Greenbank Farm
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 7.0 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 275 feet
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Highest Point
- 300 feet
Greenbank Farm was saved from becoming a housing community by partnerships with local land officials and the Trust for Public Land. Thanks to protection from Island County and the Nature Conservancy, hikers can explore the many trails that web the more than 500 acres of fields that surround the expansive property of Greenbank.
Ruth Cohen Memorial Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
This small neighborhood park features a loop trail that winds through the forest behind the playground.
Rhododendron Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 3.0 miles, (type not yet set)
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
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Highest Point
- 295 feet
A multi-use county park with a short system of rambling trails through native rhododendron forest in central Whidbey Island.
Dugualla State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 5.0 miles, roundtrip
The land encompassed by Dugualla State Park was acquired in 1992, when Washington State Parks bought the property to prevent it from being logged. It is now a quiet little state park at the north end of Oak Harbor.
Bay View State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
The Bay View State Park on Padilla Bay has plenty of activities and amenities.
Anacortes Community Forest Lands - Little Round Top
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 3.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 850 feet
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Highest Point
- 915 feet
Hike trails that form a loop in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands (ACFL.) If you already have been to Mount Erie and to Sugarloaf, this hike will take you to one - or optionally to both - of the other two named high points in the ACFL. These are Little Round Top and Sugar Cube. As a bonus, you also will visit a great viewpoint.
Dugualla Bay Preserve
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
Dugualla Bay Preserve (not to be confused with Dugualla Bay State Park just down the road) is a natural area on the northeast area of Whidbey Island. Managed by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, this is an important section of protected shoreline for salmon recovery.
Earth Sanctuary
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 2.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 50 feet
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Highest Point
- 164 feet
Explore a rich mixture of blended nature and outdoor sculpture that is in harmony with one another on this seventy two acres of natural restoration. Enjoy trails through various small ecosystems that include bogs, ponds, a forest wildlife and several surprises along the way. You will also be experiencing the early decades of what is to be a five hundred year plan.
Putney Woods, Saratoga Woods and Metcalf Trail System
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 20.0 miles of trails
From the picnic tables scattered throughout, to the brushed back trails and spacious trail head parking lot, these three connecting trail systems reflect the pride, enthusiasm and commitment of the local volunteers who created and now maintain them.
Anacortes Community Forest Lands - Little Cranberry Lake
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 1.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 125 feet
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Highest Point
- 250 feet
Set off for a hike in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands (ACFL), a 2,800-acre preserve within the city limits of Anacortes.
Ala Spit
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 1.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 10 feet
This trail only takes about 20 minutes to hike out and back with great views of Mount Baker, Mount Erie, Fidalgo Island, Hope Island and the inner part of Puget Sound.
Joseph Whidbey State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 3.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 118 feet
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Highest Point
- 60 feet
A smaller, less well known state park on Whidbey Island with gorgeous beach views and a shorter but diverse trail system through woods, grassy meadows, marsh and beach areas.
Fort Ebey State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 4.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 520 feet
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Highest Point
- 570 feet
There are plenty of interesting things to see at Fort Ebey, and lots of trails to take you there. A beach walk, bluff views, a lake, forest, and history can all be found here. The park has 26 miles of trails, allowing you to put together a very interesting hike, either long or short, that includes most or all of the sights. This loop of approximately four miles will take you on a nice tour.
Possession Point State Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Whidbey Island
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Length
- 3.0 miles, roundtrip
Located on the south side of Whidbey Island, this tiny state park includes the short but fun and challenging Dorothy Cleveland Trail, with plenty of elevation gain in the form of switchbacks.
