Fort Townsend State Park

#3799 among destinations in the United States

Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area

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Fort Townsend State Park is a public recreation area located two miles south of Port Townsend in Jefferson County, Washington. The state park occupies a third of the site of the original Fort Townsend built in 1856. The park includes 3,960 feet of shoreline on Port Townsend Bay, picnicking and camping areas, 6.5 miles of hiking trails, and facilities for boating, fishing, and crabbing. ()

Coordinates: 48°4'24"N, 122°47'49"W

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Fort Townsend State Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum, Fort Worden, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Point Wilson Lighthouse.

4.5 miN
Museum, Military museum
Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum, Port Townsend
114 min walk • Puget Sound Coast Artillery Museum is a military museum located at Fort Worden State Park on Puget Sound, in the State of Washington. The museum occupies part of Building 201, a former barracks at Fort Worden.
4.7 miN
Park
Fort Worden, Port Townsend
120 min walk • Fort Worden Historical State Park is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on 433 acres originally known as Fort Worden, a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps base constructed to protect Puget Sound from invasion by sea.
3.4 miNE
Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Port Townsend
87 min walk • The St. Paul's Episcopal Church is a Gothic Revival church in Port Townsend, Washington. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
5.3 miN
Lighthouse
Point Wilson Lighthouse, Greenbank
135 min walk • The Point Wilson Light is an active aid to navigation located in Fort Worden State Park near Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington.
1.3 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum
Port Townsend Aero Museum, Port Townsend
32 min walk • Port Townsend Aero Museum is an aviation museum located at Jefferson County International Airport in Port Townsend, Washington.
3.2 miNE
Romanesque revival architecture
United States Post Office – Port Townsend Main, Port Townsend
83 min walk • United States Post Office – Port Townsend Main is a Richardsonian Romanesque building completed in 1893 on a bluff above Port Townsend's waterfront. It was intended to serve as a Federal building that would include a customhouse serving Port Townsend's incipient role in world trade.
3.5 miNE
Museum, History museum
Rothschild House, Port Townsend
90 min walk • The Rothschild House is a house in Port Townsend, Washington. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is included in Port Townsend Historic District which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. It was built by D. C. H. Rothschild.
4.7 miN
48°8'12"N • 122°45'47"W
Port Townsend Marine Science Center, Port Townsend
119 min walk • Science museum, Museum, Aquarium
5.4 miE
Lighthouse
Marrowstone Point Light, Port Townsend
138 min walk • The Marrowstone Point Light is an active navigational aid overlooking Admiralty Inlet at the northern tip of Marrowstone Island, Jefferson County, Washington, in the United States.
3.4 miNE
Neighbourhood
Port Townsend Historic District, Port Townsend
88 min walk • The Port Townsend Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing a significant portion of the waterfront and downtown area of Port Townsend, Washington. This area has many well-preserved late 19th-century buildings, owing to a building boom and crash in the 1880s.
3.4 miNE
48°6'60"N • 122°45'47"W
Port Townsend First Baptist Church, Port Townsend
87 min walk • Church

Fort Townsend State Park

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Fort Townsend State Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)