Reviews of Fort Townsend - Historical State Park (Park)

Theodore Hellmann

Smells like mud flats and is covered with foxtails - not safe for dogs :/ pretty area though.

Roger RAS

Private campsites in woods. A few picnic tables near water. Great day use spaces and lots of woodsy hiking trails. Beautiful.

Minh-Chau Nguyen

Very nice campsite. We had a great time there.

Brandon H

Pretty large state park with plenty of trails and open spaces. Check out the old cemetery; it's a very short walk from the main parking area.

Ludwig Becker

Beautiful fern blanketed Forrest hikes! Mini rainforest without going all the way to the Hoh.

Marlayna Franklin

So great

Aidoneus Bishop

This is the primary meeting location for the Wild Wise School. It's a great spot, but be careful when there in early to mid spring, the mosquitoes can be brutal.

Paula Leopold

Best Campground I have ever been to. Breathtakingly beautiful. Jurassic Park without the dinosaurs!

Daniel H

Not much to see and No good signage

Catherine Signoretty

If you have a camper /RV over 21ft long, you are stuck in the RV parking row. No privacy, no fire pit.

Trevor Green

Buietifull place to go enjoy your day.

Angel Irwin

Always an adventure!

Bill Templin

Beautiful park

Kevin Middleton

The campground is well laid out with plenty of room between each of the sites. The bathrooms are a bit basic and dated, but usable. Really quiet and friendly (which isn't the case with all State campgrounds). Recommended for a laid back stay with easy access to Port Townsend.

Rob Seaverns

Great location, friendly staff and outstanding scenery. Clean, affordable and quiet.

Lindsay Alaniz

My kids loved visiting the ocean!!!! My sister and I taught our kids a bunch of fun facts about sea life. They played on the beach and even watched a eagle flying over us, he was so close we got to see how big he actually was. He flew at least 30 over top of us!!! It was such an amazing experience!!!

Paul Watkins

Awesome park really really quiet

Dave Dillard

Beautiful

Lance Rosmaier

Nice place for walkabout. Interesting history.

Shannon-Mary Obbagy

Small, but nice beach. Questionably haunted. Worth a visit if you feel like a history hike.

Tamara Johnson

Very nice place. Difficult to see things though if you have mobility issues.

R. Becerra

Rv parking too close to neighbors if it bothers you. Wasnt a prob this time for us. No fire pits for rv parking but for tent its nice with tons of trees and fire pits. Cant reach water easily and no view of bay from sites.

Arch Stanton

Very nice park with a great campsite Bathrooms Shower and Water

Michael Larson

Great campground, beautiful park

Keenankallista Allen

This is a great place for the whole family. Lots of wildlife to see and explore and it's easy to get to.

Bj Hedahl

View

Paul Zenone

Awesome place!!!

Matt

I like to take my kids here. Has beach access and many easy trails.

Moira Kearney

Beautiful views and camping. Some WWI/II history too, there's a decomissioned munitions disarming facility that you can camp in and around. Plenty of hiking trails

Andrew Michalko

Very happy with this wonderful state park! Great location, just outside of town, very private and tucked away in the trees. Compact campground makes this very family friendly and affordable.

Ian Thompson

Great park, beautiful scenery. But the paper mill smells like a fart. Site of a historical eco restoration to the shoreline. There were signs explaining the history and the native wildlife. We walked along the shore and it was great, so many barnicles! And the trails were beautiful. But the overwhelming fart smell is unbearable. Yikes

D. C.

Nice clean place

Mark Logreco

Awesome place

Chris Cliff

Nicely maintained with great informational signs about the park's history.

Matt Chadwick

Great hiking and dog walking trails.

chris wotton

Quiet.

Heather Hamilton

This has scattered trails, beautiful Forest, small beach shoreline, and tons of picnic space. I recommend it for everyone. There is some wheelchair access as well.

Kristi Spiegel

Nice relaxing, easy trail.

Kathryn Windle

Love this place!

cole younger

Excellent campgrounds. Highly recommend making reservations about a week or more in advance which can be easily done online.

Randy Kalmbach

Fun place

Jeffrey Wong

This was a quiet park to camp on the weekend when we visited. The trees are mighty and our campsite # 7 had plenty of space for tents and a hammock.

timothy moisio

It nature. Enjoy.

Rachel McNary

Site 22 was nice and private and there was woods behind it. The campground was quiet and the RVs were separated from the tents so we couldn't hear their generators going. Very pleasant

Albert Blank

Beautiful always fun educational historical State Park fun for all ages

Naomi Ward

Wonderful quiet place to camp, campsites are nice and you can purchase great firewood for camp fires on site. There is one shower in bathroom you can use for 3 mins. using tokens.

Tommy Kim

Great shaded campgrounds

David Segleau

Nice trails and views. Very underutilized park, although there aren't additional amenities either -- no store or restaurant. Many are within a 10-minute drive however.

A Human

Great place to visit.

parinpin pin

A good hiking way nearly lake

Audrey Ebert

I camped here during the last week of July 2015. I had camped here several years earlier and remembered enjoying it, so I came back. Though I didn't have a bad time, I probably won't seek this place out to stay again. The campsites themselves are fairly nice, though mine had no flat spots or those without stumps and rocks suitable to pitch a tent. Some did have tent pads, but not all. There are several miles of hiking trails, though what should have been a refreshing hike with fresh air was overcome by the smell of the paper mill. Gross! They are beautiful with some cool sights and old military things, though. Also, the "beach" views are kind of ruined by the industrial buildings across the water. And then there's the smell again. Shellfish are not safe to eat from this area, and I wouldn't really recommend swimming in it, either. Overall, I wouldn't go out of my way to avoid this place, but I also won't go out of my way to come back. 3.5/5

Vigneash Sundararajan

Pretty good place to walk on the wild side.

Peaceful One

Wonderful place to forest bathe.

Tom Millhoff

In early April we were the only campers. the RV sites are fine but the forested tent sites are best... I liked #24 - trails off the forest sites and plenty of hiking off all of the sites it's not a sandy beach but with a stroll.

Brian Curry

Beautiful park!

Nicholas Naimo

Quiet spot, most of the sites are level; theres a short walk to the water. Not much to do however in the area it seemed. Good overnight rest if your on a drive.

Julie Christenson

My favorite place to visit.

Corbin Nakamura

This is a great gem near Port Townsend. Much quieter and smaller than the larger Fort Warden state park. Arrived on a Tuesday to a nice pull through site. Checked in with a guy at a little white building at the end of the road. Full bathroom facilities and shower. Sites are relatively close together and good for tent camping or small trailers, anything over 15' would be tough to navigate the loop. The site has a bunch of hiking trails that take you down to the beach which is convenient. Beautiful getaway that's not too far from civilization but certainly feels like it!

Jordan Meeter

If you're looking for a serene woodsy place to tent camp this is it! There are RV/trailer sites which are what you would expect - all in a line with no privacy between them. The tent sites all have moderate to high privacy, especially the perimeter sites. If you're in the middle of the loop then unfortunately you have people 360 degrees around you but still not terrible. I noticed that all the sites have fire pits with grills except for #2 for some reason. I would also avoid #2 and #3 as they are literally directly next to the bathrooms and there is a bright metal halide light outside the bathroom. The pull-through sites generally are more secluded and offer more natural buffers than the back-in sites do. Within walking distance of the tent sites are large grassy fields with plenty of room for activities and games and there are several miles of easy walking trails that parallel the shore line with beautiful vistas overlooking Port Townsend Bay. One of the trails leads down to the shore which has a nice picnic table right on the shore. An added bonus for history buffs are the placards on one of the walking trails that tells the history of the park when it was an active Army base in the late 1800's. The trails are all wide and well-maintained as well as heavily shaded which is nice in the hot summer. Only of a few of the lesser used trails were quite narrow (shoulder width wide). All in all my wife, daughter and I fell in love with this park and will definitely be reserving #1 again!

Maxim Sinitsyn

Nice park with decent day use and camping. Some trails by the shoreline bordering residential area, beach is pretty rocky. Active plant nearby spoiled the view to the North and makes swimming much less attractive

Travis Stowers

Friendly and helpful park staff.

Kelly Englert

This was a great place to explore!

Veronica Roberts

Fun place

Laura Mackenzie

Always a favorite picnic spot and place to take a break after a ferry ride and before heading down Hood Canal or over to Sequim and Port Angeles. Clean restrooms. The road in is narrow and rough, lots of potholes in many places. Many trails into the forest to enjoy as well.

Mark Mac

Cool park, good amenities.

Dan O'Leary

Very quiet and next to the water. We stayed at the dry camp RV site which are nice, buy very close together. The hiking trails around the park are very nice and a great way to start the day. We did about 2.5 miles that goes through very nice woods around the park.

Talle Selhorst

So many amazing trees and views!

John Williams

Lovely views and lots of historical artifacts that make for an interesting visit.. great beach as well.

Rich Z

Fort Worden state park is one of the systems best parks. 80 Rv sites some near the water some in the upper woods plus most of the residences on post are also rent-able. The staff is friendly, the park is very clean and many of the restroom are brand new and have showers. Miles of walking trails, huge grassy areas and a couple miles of beach. There is a marine science center and small aquarium plus a nice underwater area for diving. I have spent many weeks here and love it. Very busy in the summer months so reserve early. Campsites can be very windy in the fall and winter especially the bech side units.

Brenton Chambers

Loved it. Nice place to stay at.

Andrea Hicks

Beautiful place for weddings and camping

Crystal Gage

Set back in the beautiful forest is a small barn inside this park. We rented this as the backdrop of our wedding day venue. It was amazing. Guests were able to go to the beach and walk the shore, enjoy a hike in the forest, and cozy up next to a fireplace inside the barn. We were shocked when we rented it that it was even available and the price was amazing. It allowed our families and friends to have the perfect setting to watch myself and my new husband join together.

Alison Potter

A wonderful park with well-marked walking, and biking, trails. A lovely, local getaway, especially nice for warmer days when you want a cooler place to walk. Locals have scattered small treasures about the landscape for little ones (and adults too!) to seek out. A fun place to visit!

Kip Wassink

Beautiful space with some great hikes. Would love a little easier access to the water for boats, but you can't really dictate geology.

Gabriel Bozeman

Great State Park with camping, hiking, biking, and a beach.

Michael Rosenthal

Beautiful forest park on the water. Camping in summer. Clean and well kept grounds. Requires "Discover Pass"

Ambyr Lorenzo

The trails at this park are amazing to walk and the old growth trees are breath taking!

A Ross Fowler

Unreal forest beauty

Dmitry Y.

Was closed for camping :(

Carmen Abayan

Wide open maintained trails.

Andres Hark

Great place for a day trip or overnight RVing (dry camp only) with limited number of sites & they're tight.

Thomas Coutts

* Nice Park With Plenty of Well Maintained Trails 4 Hiking *

Brian Collins

Fort towns and is an excellent place to camp kayak and bicycle

Samuel Carroll

What a gorgeous place to hike, or camp!

bakside Disaster

Overall this park is mediocre. The RV camping spots are right on top of each other with barely 8ft between each other especially with the side out. There's no fire pits except for the very last spot. View is grass field and pit toilets near RVs are horrendous. You have to walk up to the tent camping area for decent bathroom not swarming with flys. Even then the bathrooms weren't very clean and they were out of toilet paper. Trails don't really go anywhere, old cemetery in the woods is basically a sign in front of a bunch of dead fall. Rangers don't seem to care. Beach is decent but you have to walk up and down a very steep hill after doing it three times in one day I don't ever want to go back. There's so many great camping spots on the peninsula I'd skip this one. I'm definitely not coming back. Now I know why they had spots available.

Josh Randolph

The park is okay. If you are coming to have a picnic and play in the field it is great. If you are coming to see historical locations all there is to see is signs saying things used to be here. Like the cemetery which is nothing more than a sign saying it used to be here but all the bodies were moved somewhere else. But like I said if you want a park to relax and play Frisbee or whiffle ball, this is a nice place.

koos kleven

This is a great park. We stayed in the group site by the torpedo x ray building. It's nice and private best time of trails. The park is perfect for taking a day trip into Port Townsend. If you want to kick around the park, there are horseshoes and a big lawn with beach access. The general campground is a little close quarters, but not too crazy.

Amy C

Gorgeous woodland trails, peaceful and tranquil

Tyree Jane Escobar

Rustic!

Tabitha Henricksen

A peaceful small state park. Tent camping spots are in a wooded area and RV spots are more exposed. Enjoyed our time there with the exception of the odd music playing in the bathrooms, which was pretty eerie. If you want a park with lots to do you are better off to head to Fort Worden probably. But if you want to relax in peace and quiet, this is a great place. The tent camping spots are much more shaded and most more private than the spots at Fort Worden, which are jammed in there.

Christopher Johnson

Beautiful park horrible restrooms and showers

Grant Rollins

Nice park with interesting history. Beautiful views and hiking trails.

Tracy W

This is a beautiful park for hiking year round & camping in the summer. It sits on the bluff overlooking Port Townsend Bay. It's a bit out of town on Hwy 19, but worth a visit if you want solitude & quiet. The old fort is no longer there, like Fort Worden, but there are signs where things once were.

Bev Young Reed

All uphill

Richard Deno

Nice park, especially for a hike. The camping accommodation seems to be well put together, but I've never stayed there so don't really know. Other then the extensive trails in the woods and down to the beach there's not much of a draw, but if you're interested I a hike it's a nice place to go.

Jessica Christofferson

We loved the campground & beach but the noise and smell from a local paper mill was not ideal.

Matt Lindsey

Recently my cousin got married there I've gone to a few family reunions there surprisingly I've never been camping there as I lived in Port Townsend my entire life when I was a kid I would go clamming down on the beach down the big long trail as a young adult I would regularly kayak by there on my way from the Ajax Cafe in Port Hadlock on my way to Port Townsend

jered reynolds

Good camping spot. Free dump if you camp. All services available near by.

Brandi Perelli

Beautiful place for a wedding!

Mike Ferreira

Good park for small RV's, Campers and Tents.

Maximilian Amann

Nice place

Aussie Allen

I love portend and this is always a place we stay or visit

Spencer Church

Staff was great. Old facilities. State needs to contribute more money for updates.

Joe Tutch

Great hiker/biker sites!

Grand Frosty

This state has so many wonderful parks. Absolutely wonderful. There was a wedding here that day..

Trina Mink

Great hiking, camping and old growth forest

Jeremy Espinoza

In the rainshadow!

Sarah Nelson

Beautiful! Visiting Fort Townsend is the perfect day trip, plan to spend time visiting the shops along the waterfront I. port Townsend as well.

Tim Lawson

Wonderful trails. Large old trees. Cliff top walk. Low tide beach. Good camping. Group campsite at old torpedo building!

Patrick Heys

Be ready for some up and down trails but really pretty.