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Kitsap Memorial State Park
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Kitsap Memorial State Park

north of Poulsbo, Washington
visited 13 February 2021
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What a difference a week makes! A week earlier, my daughter and I were kayaking and enjoying the relatively warm weather. For this holiday weekend, I had hoped to drive (solo) to some parks that were farther from home. Alas, the weather had other plans. A heavy snowfall made it unwise to travel long distances, but it also rendered one of my local parks especially interesting.

I started by walking down to the Hood Canal shoreline.

A snow-covered trail lined with wooden fences and posts winds through a forest at Kitsap Memorial State Park, with footprints marking the packed snow and evergreen and bare branches draped in snow overhead under an overcast winter sky.
Trail down to the shoreline.
A row of large green algae-covered boulders capped with thick mounds of fresh snow lines a gravel and pebble beach along a calm gray bay, with snow-dusted evergreens and a distant shoreline and dock fading into misty overcast sky.
Boulders along the shore wearing their “snow caps.”
A snow-dusted shoreline along a calm inlet under heavy gray fog, with snow-laden evergreen trees and shrubs lining the pebbly beach in the foreground and a wooded point with houses and a long pier fading into the mist across the water.
A snow-covered pebble beach along a calm, gray inlet under an overcast winter sky, with snow-laden trees and shrubs lining a boulder shoreline on the right and distant hazy headlands across the water.
Snow-dusted pine branches with long needles frame the view across a calm gray body of water under an overcast winter sky at Kitsap Memorial State Park.
A snow-topped interpretive sign at a beach park, with red-and-white “Notice: Oyster Season Closed” and “Notice: Clam” warning placards above a “Popular Intertidal Shellfish” identification panel, set against snowy madrona trees, beach grass, and gray water under an overcast winter sky.

Back up on the main land, the Log Hall typically hosts weddings and other fun events. COVID restrictions and the weather conspired to keep it closed when I visited.

A dark-stained log lodge with a snow-covered roof sits among tall evergreen trees in a snowy forest clearing, its windows framed by snow-laden shrubs and fresh snow blanketing the ground.

The cabins, however, were open, and from what I could tell at a distance, a few intrepid souls were actually staying there!

A snow-covered clearing at a state park with a row of small wooden camping cabins sitting beneath a backdrop of tall, snow-dusted evergreen trees under an overcast winter sky.
A snow-covered picnic area at Kitsap Memorial State Park, with two empty picnic tables and a standing charcoal grill blanketed in fresh snow, backed by a row of tall snow-dusted evergreen trees under an overcast white sky.
A green conifer branch, its reddish stem and feathery needles extending from the left, is heavily laden with fresh white snow against a smooth blanket of snow-covered ground behind it.

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