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Fort Ebey State Park
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Fort Ebey State Park

west of Coupeville, Washington
visited 11 June 2022
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Fort Ebey was built as part of our coastal defense strategy in World War II and quickly deemed as a “surplus” facility after the war ended. You can now tour the abandoned gun batteries and explore many miles of hiking trails.

A narrow dirt trail winds through a lush green forest at Fort Ebey State Park, bordered by dense shrubs and ferns, with tall evergreen trees rising toward a partly blue sky dappled with sunlight.
A wide panoramic view of a calm freshwater pond dotted with lily pads, ringed by dense evergreen forest under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. Reeds and grasses grow along the near shore, and the trees and sky are mirrored in the still water.
A dirt hiking trail winds through a coastal forest, flanked by ferns, low green shrubs, and mossy tree roots, with a large weathered conifer rising against a bright blue sky.
A dirt hiking trail leads down through green grass toward a wooden split-rail fence at the edge of a coastal bluff, overlooking calm blue water under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. A weathered, windswept evergreen tree frames the left side of the frame.
A view from a bluff over a calm blue sea with a gravel-and-sand beach below, scattered with bleached driftwood logs. A tall evergreen tree stands at left and green shrubs and grass frame the foreground, under a bright sky with layered white clouds and hazy hills in the distance.
A narrow dirt trail descends through green grass, ferns, and shrubs toward the sea, with a tall evergreen tree on the left and blooming yellow gorse on the grassy hillside to the right, under a bright blue sky with wispy clouds over the water.
A sandy and pebble-strewn beach curving along a shoreline, with an eroding coastal bluff topped by evergreen trees and grass on the right, driftwood scattered near its base, and the sea with distant hazy islands on the left under a deep blue sky with wispy clouds.
The entrance to a WWII-era concrete military bunker painted in green and yellow camouflage, set into a grassy hillside covered in ivy and greenery, with “1942” and the word “USED” stenciled above the dark doorway. A concrete ramp leads into the shadowy tunnel entrance, flanked by open green wooden gates, under a blue sky with wispy clouds.
A wide coastal meadow of green grass with a dirt footpath leading toward the sea, flanked by weathered wind-shaped evergreen trees and bright yellow gorse bushes under a big blue sky with dramatic white clouds. Calm water stretches to a distant hazy shoreline on the horizon.
Two deer graze in a grassy coastal meadow dotted with wildflowers, with a calm expanse of water and distant hills beyond. Two people stand near the bluff’s edge by the shoreline under a partly cloudy sky.
A gravel trail winds through a grassy bluff dotted with yellow wildflowers and flowering gorse bushes, leading toward a calm expanse of water with distant low hills under a blue sky filled with scattered white clouds.
A dirt trail winds along a grassy coastal bluff overlooking calm blue water under a broad sky of scattered white clouds, with distant boats and a low shoreline visible on the horizon.
A grassy bluff with tall wild grasses and small yellow wildflowers overlooks a calm expanse of gray-blue water, with a low forested shoreline on the horizon beneath a dramatic sky filled with broken clouds and patches of blue.
A grassy hillside trail with weathered wooden and gravel steps flanked by a rustic wooden railing, leading up toward a line of tall evergreen trees under a blue sky with scattered clouds. Yellow dandelions dot the tall grass along the path at Fort Ebey State Park.

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