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Westport Light State Park

Westport, Washington

visited 10 April 2022

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Washington’s coastline is often characterized as blustery. When I visited Westport Light State Park recently, that was definitely the case.

I dodged a rainstorm, but just barely.

A wide coastal view over dune grass and low brush toward a beach where waves break under a moody, cloud-filled sky, with a couple of tiny figures visible standing on the wet sand near the water.

A wide expanse of dramatic gray and white cumulus clouds fills most of the frame above a low, dark green line of coastal pine trees, with scrubby dune vegetation, brush, and grasses in the foreground. A small lighthouse pokes above the treeline in the distance.

A weathered wooden boardwalk with railings leads through beach grass and coastal shrubs to a viewing platform overlooking the ocean, where white waves break under a heavy gray, overcast sky.

There’s a long trail just inland from the beach. Here are some samples of the view from the bluffs.

A wide sandy Pacific beach under a dramatic, overcast sky with rain visible falling in the distance over the water. Rolling waves break along the shore, driftwood logs are piled among grassy dunes in the foreground, and a few tiny figures walk along the beach.

A sandy path winds through coastal dune grass and low green shrubs toward the ocean at Westport Light State Park, with white breaking waves in the distance under a heavy, overcast gray sky.

A wide, flat sandy beach beneath a heavy, overcast sky with dramatic gray storm clouds, where white-capped waves roll toward shore. In the foreground, windswept dune grass and pieces of bleached driftwood frame the view.

Weathered driftwood logs and a large gnarled root scattered across a wide expanse of gray sand beach, with an eroded, grass-topped dune ridge behind them under a heavy, overcast sky.

A white limpet shell with a small central hole rests on rippled gray beach sand, alongside a smooth dark stone and a tiny pink pebble.

A wide, flat expanse of dark gray sand at Westport Light State Park, marked with tire tracks and scattered white shells, stretching toward the ocean on the right. Grass-topped dunes line the left edge and heavy, moody storm clouds fill the sky above the distant horizon.

A paved walking path winds through low coastal dune grasses and shrubs toward the horizon, with a weathered concrete bench beside the trail and a dramatic overcast sky of heavy gray clouds overhead.

There are also some trails through the woods behind the bluffs. From what I could tell they’re mostly used by cyclists.

A narrow dirt footpath winds through low coastal scrub and windswept pines under a heavy overcast gray sky at Westport Light State Park.

A dense thicket of gnarled, twisting tree trunks and branches heavily coated in bright green moss, spreading out low over a bare dirt and grassy forest floor beneath a canopy of small leaves and pale sky.

And the irony of this park? The lighthouse for which it is named … is not actually in the park. It’s also probably the only lighthouse that is almost a mile inland. (The land west of the lighthouse filled in by natural processes over the century or so since the lighthouse was constructed.)

A tall white lighthouse with a domed gold-topped lantern room rises above a stand of moss-draped evergreen trees under an overcast gray sky, with a small red-roofed outbuilding at its base and a bird flying in the upper right.

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