Olympia, WA
The trails give excellent birdwatching vantages of the refuge’s sloughs, dikes, wetland pools, and extensive mud and tidal flats. When the tide is out, take to the boardwalk traversing glistening mud and salt flats.

Olympia, WA
This is a great “pit-stop” on your loop journey. The access from Hwy 101 is easy, and ADA accessible.

Hood Canal, WA
The more than a half mile of beach on Hood Canal is where the good birdwatching is at.

Hood Canal, WA
The adjacent Skokomish River delta consists of estuary, riparian forests and extensive wetlands and a heron rookery.

Marrowstone Island, WA
Owing to its location and surrounded by water on three sides, the park is a great spot for watching marine birds.

Sequim, WA
The eelgrass beds in Dungeness Bay host some of the state’s largest concentrations of wintering harlequin ducks, scaups, black brants, black-bellied plovers and dunlins.

Port Angeles, WA
When the tide is low, take to a series of staircases leading to beaches, and rocky shelves for better viewing.

Clallam Bay, WA
Mile long sandy spit with beach walking, views of Vancouver Island, and excellent birdwatching. The river attracting a wide array of birds and mammals.

Pacific Coast, WA
From a bluff top trailhead, hike through a salt-sprayed maritime forest for .2 mile to the beach set before contorted sea stacks and Abbey Island just offshore.

Grays Harbor, WA
Damon Point is on what was once Protection Island. But through accretion the point is now on a 1.5 mile long spit.

Grays Harbor, WA
The basin is inundated with hundreds of thousands of shorebirds from late April to early May.