Salt Creek State Park

Last week we hung out at Salt Creek Campground in the Salt Creek Recreation Area. It was a bit of an emergency location to camp as the spot chosen to boondock nearby could not take Kerri’s 27 foot trailer.

Our front yard for the week

Sunset over the Strait

The campground itself is just as you would imagine any State Park. It does the trick, has the amenities, but comes with the crowds and tons of restrictions, regulations, and rules. For example,  in Washington it is illegal to open or consume any alcoholic beverage, including within the privacy of your own  RV. It is not a Washington-only thing though. I am seeing this more and more frequently in State Parks.

Nevertheless, the park was as expected of any wilderness in the Pacific North West – especially considering we were only a few dozen feet from the Strait of Juan De Fuca – wet, cool, and lots of overgrowth. It made for some nice photos at times, but I could easily grow tires of being cold to the bone all the time.

We did what we could to stay active; kayaking nearby Lake Crescent, taking short hikes on the trails, checking out the old Camp Hayden bunkers from WW2, and exploring the tide pools along the shoreline. All in all a pleasant week even with the bit of dreary weather.