We started at Sharpe Park. Nice place for a New Year’s hike. Vault toilet is stocked. Trails are in great shape. Thank you to those who cut the downed trees! A little bit of mud but not a problem. We only saw a few people on the trail today.
When we were done we headed to Rosario Beach and poked around in the tide pools. Strangely not crowded on a free day.

Be safe! To get to Lighthouse Point trail you need to walk left from the parking lot along Bowman Bay. The trail here, as well as the isthmus between two bays, is washed out, with large beached logs all over, slippery seaweed and detritus from our recent storms and big tides. Use caution and watch the tide tables to make sure you can get out and back safely. If in doubt, walk right and take the trail to Rosario Head instead.

Rough along beach, logs all over, watch the tides, no trail

This was supposed to be the Deception Pass 50k race, but given the flooding the prior week, the official race was canceled. So a couple of friends and I headed to DP State Park anyway to run our own 50k. The weather looked beautiful, and we already had campground reservations. 

tl;dr: the weather was amazing, the trails were in incredible shape, the campground was spotless, and a wonderful time was had by all. We ran the Discovery trail to Forest trail to Goose Rock, around Cornet Bay, across the bridge, and looped Lottie Pt. Lighthouse Point was next, followed by a trip out to Rosario Head and back across the bridge. All these trails were in terrific condition, no logs, no blowdowns, well drained, and the views were beautiful.

Back over Goose Rock and out to Cornet Bay Rd, we did two loops of CCC --> Hoypus --> Fireside --> Forest Grove --> Fern Gully --> down logging road to N Fork --> Little Alder --> Hoypus. Back out Cornet Bay Rd took us to the Discovery Trail --> Beach Trail to end at the amphitheater.  

Any of these trails are great for hiking. There was one down log on W Hoypus but it was easy to cross. In general the trails on Hoypus Hill were muddier but other than getting your kicks a bit dirty get out and enjoy this beautiful jewel in our state park crown.

We parked at Bowman Bay, walked up to Rosario Head, back to Bowman Bay, over to the bridge, the Goose Rock perimeter trail, along the road by Cranberry Pond to West Point, over to North Beach, across the bridge and back to Bowman Bay. 

It was an unexpectedly lovely day with some sun, clouds, drizzle, amazing light on the water and relatively few people.  Any excellent way to spend a December afternoon.