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Doug’s Beach State Park
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Doug’s Beach State Park

east of Lyle, Washington
visited 5 February 2022
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Doug’s Beach is named for Doug Campbell, who was an early pioneer of windsurfing. The park is popular today for that sport, but there were none at the time I visited. (Indeed, there were no other visitors to the park at all while I was there.)

See Spring Creek Hatchery where I did get some great photos and videos of windsurfing a year or so ago.

A grassy riverside park in winter with bare-branched trees framing a view across the sunlit Columbia River to a dark, forested hillside beneath a deep blue sky. Two empty picnic tables sit on the rocky shoreline near the water’s edge.
A gravelly, sandy beach with pieces of driftwood in the foreground gives way to the choppy blue-gray water of the Columbia River, with steep dry mountain ridges and basalt cliffs rising along both banks under a deep blue sky.
A gnarled, bare-branched tree with a thick, weathered trunk stands on a sandy shore strewn with driftwood and dead branches, with the turquoise water of the Columbia River and dry hillsides in the background under bright daylight.
A rocky, moss-flecked shoreline of a wide river with dry brush and leafless shrubs in the foreground, a steep basalt hillside rising on the left, and hills fading into the distance beyond the water under a clear blue sky.
A weathered wooden picnic table sits on a sandy beach beside a large rocky outcrop, facing choppy blue-green water of the Columbia River, with steep dark hills dotted with evergreens and traces of snow rising across the far shore under a clear blue sky.
A wide river bordered by rugged basalt shorelines and dry, treeless hills under a mostly clear blue sky, with a few ducks swimming on the calm water and moss-covered rocks in the foreground.
Bare, silhouetted trees stand in a grassy meadow dotted with clumps of sagebrush along the Columbia River, with dry hills rising across the water under a partly cloudy blue sky.
A grassy, rocky point of lichen-covered basalt juts into the wind-rippled Columbia River, with steep sunlit and shadowed hills rising across the water and a wispy contrail streaking the blue sky.
A rugged basalt cliff and rocky ridgeline rise under a clear blue sky, with a foreground of grassy slopes strewn with lichen-covered boulders and bare, reddish-brown brush in early winter dormancy.
A moss-covered basalt outcrop in the foreground looks out over a river bordered by tall dry cliffs and hills, with bare winter trees and reddish brush in the middle distance and a red freight train running along the shoreline below a clear blue sky.

Your visit to the park might have to wait a minute or three because …

A single railroad track runs straight toward the horizon at a grade crossing, with concrete crossing panels in the foreground and steel rails converging into the distance. Grassy tan hills rise on the left, a river and dry landscape lie to the right, and the deep blue sky above is streaked with a wispy contrail.

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