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Cama Beach Historical State Park
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Cama Beach Historical State Park

Camano Island, Washington
visited 29 August 2021
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What makes Cama Beach State Park distinctive is its well-preserved family cabins dating back to the 1930s.

When the owners of the Cama Beach family beach resort decided to close in 1989, they approached the state with the idea of transforming it into a state park. Some years later, that vision came to pass, and the park feels much like a trip down memory lane.

A large white-painted boulder with the words “OFFICE” and “STORE” and a pointing arrow in red paint, set among dry shrubs and bushes atop a stone wall, with a view of calm blue water and forested shoreline under a clear sky in the background.
Rustic brown wooden cabins with pitched roofs and green-trimmed windows set among tall evergreen and deciduous trees, with a numbered cabin and a wooden picnic table on a patch of dry grass in the foreground.
A vintage red Chevron gas pump with a glass visible-register top stands under a wooden shelter, alongside old rusted blue fuel equipment, at a historic site with a brown wood-sided building and flower boxes in the background. A green display rack in the foreground holds “Forest Walk Handouts” and other brochures labeled “TAKE ONE.”
A rustic wood-paneled interior with a vintage wooden mail sorting cubby hung on the wall, topped with old wooden tennis and badminton rackets, a metal coffee pot, and retro Superman and ranger lunchbox tins. A small painting of a cabin in front of green trees sits on top, and a framed “Marine Mammals of Puget Sound” poster hangs on the right wall.
Weathered gray driftwood and a large tree stump rest on a pebbly beach at Cama Beach State Park, with calm blue waters of Puget Sound stretching toward a forested shoreline under a deep blue, nearly cloudless sky.
A small painted rock lettered “CAMA” in white on a red and blue background sits atop a large weathered gray driftwood log on a beach of pebbles and broken white shells, with a sprig of green plant growing in the foreground.

I wasn’t able to enter any of the cabins while there, but I could press my camera up against the glass for a good view inside.

The interior of a rustic wood-paneled cabin with a bed covered in a blue, green, and white quilt in the foreground, a small kitchenette with a microwave, white refrigerator, and red-and-white curtains on the left, and a metal-framed bunk bed visible through a doorway in the center.

A painted wooden photo-op cutout of a red-haired mermaid with a green tail and shell top (face hole open) stands under a weathered wooden shelter at a beach, with a vintage-style painted diver figure in an old-fashioned diving suit and helmet beside it. Beyond a concrete seawall, calm blue water with small moored boats stretches to a distant forested shoreline under a bright, clear sky.
A tall, leaning dead tree with broken, bare branches stands along a pebbly shoreline under a deep blue sky at Cama Beach State Park. Wooden Adirondack chairs sit on a grassy bluff near the water, where a small boat floats in the calm bay with tree-covered hills on the far shore.
A pebble and gravel beach backed by a steep forested hillside of evergreen trees under a clear blue sky, with large bleached driftwood logs and root wads scattered near the water. A few people stand at the shoreline by the calm water on the right.
Large sun-bleached driftwood logs and weathered root wads resting on a pebbled beach, with dense green and rust-colored shrubs and tall grass lining the shore behind them.
A weathered, sun-bleached dead tree with a dramatically curved and hooked top rises against a deep blue sky, its twisted grain and split trunk prominent, with green trees and bare branches in the background.
A gravel and pebble beach curves along calm blue water under a clear sky, with bleached driftwood logs piled near a wooded bluff of densely forested evergreen and deciduous trees. A couple of small figures are visible in the distance along the shoreline, with a forested headland extending into the water.
A large gray boulder resting on a concrete slab in a wooded area, hand-painted in red letters reading “OUT TRAFFIC” with an arrow pointing to the right. Green brush, ferns, and trees surround the rock, with pine needles and fallen leaves covering the ground.

There are also a few miles of hiking trails in the hills above the park, but those I’ll save for another time.

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