Parking at Kukutali Preserve is very limited (6 spots + 1 handicapped spot). When we arrived around 11am we were lucky to get a spot but when we left a few hours later there were 6 cars parked along the road and multiple people came, turned around and left.
The pit toilet at the trailhead was in clean shape and not too smelly. Due to number of people, it was fairly busy.
Be aware this trail is a no pets trail. We saw two groups that brought their family pet. One aborted and left. The other clearly couldn't read or follow ideographic signage depicting that dogs weren't allowed.
There are three trails on the island. The North trail, the Kiket trail and the South trail. We took the North going out towards the point and returned on the South. At low tide, you can probably also use the southern beach access to reach the point.
The North trail was a very wooded trail with mostly obscured water view however there is a nice bench with a "meadow" that has a fantastic view of Deception Pass and the bridge. Around this point, we got treated to a lovely encounter with a Kingfisher.
Reaching towards the point, there is a tree across the trail after they all join up but there is a clear use trail that everyone is using to go around. The beach areas (rocky shell, not sandy) near the point are quite lovely and we saw eagles and herons and cormorants and more kingfisher.
The day use area has one covered and one uncovered picnic table and a pit toilet of its own, though we can't report on that. There is also a beach trail access marked by the shelter.
Returning, we enjoyed the South trail which was much shorter and more direct with no meaningful elevation change.
There was intermittent interpretive signage which we found to be pretty nice, overall.
On the trails, we didn't encounter people often but when we did, most were failing to mask up and the North trail didn't offer much in the way of being able to distance. The South trail was better for that but still not great.
We'd like to return and do a loop using the beach and the Kiket trail in the future.
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