Washington National Parks, National Monuments and More in Washington

National Park Service

Ebeys Landing National Historical Reserve
There are two state parks within Ebey's Landing NHR as well as the historic waterfront town of Coupeville, one of the oldest towns in Washington State.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
The fort became the center of political, cultural, and commercial activities in the Pacific Northwest. When American immigrants arrived in the Oregon Country during the 1830s and 1840s, Fort Vancouver provided them with essential supplies to begin their new settlements.

Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park
In 1897 news of a gold strike in the Canadian Yukon reached Seattle, triggering a stampede North to the Klondike Gold Fields. Tens of thousands of people descended upon Seattle: the hopeful miners purchased millions of dollars of food, clothing, equipment, pack animals, and steamship tickets. The final outcome of this great stampede helped shape the Seattle we know today,

Lake Chelan National Recreation Area
Lake Chelan National Recreation Area (62,000 acres,) rests in a glacially carved trough in the Cascades Range. Lake Chelan is one of the nation's deepest, reaching a depth of 1,500 feet.

Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
Named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the lake is now the largest recreation feature in the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

Mount Rainier National Park
The park contains Mount Rainier (14,410'), an active volcano encased in over 35 square miles of snow and ice, and outstanding examples of old growth forests and subalpine meadows.

North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park includes jagged peaks, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls and over 700 glaciers. North Cascades National Park Service Complex contains three park units, all of which offers different experiences.

Olympic National Park
Glacier capped mountains, wild Pacific coast and magnificent stands of old-growth forests, including temperate rain forests -- at Olympic National Park, you can find all three.

Ross Lake National Recreation Area
Ross Lake National Recreation Area is the most assessible part of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. It includes three reservoirs: 12,000-acre (4,800-hectare) Ross Lake, 910-acre (364-hectare) Diablo Lake, and 210-acre (84-hectare) Gorge Lake -- water gateways to more remote areas.

San Juan Island National Historical Park
The park was created in 1966 based upon an idea: that individuals and nations can solve their problems peacfully without resorting to violence. The American soldiers and British Royal Marines remained for 12 years until Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, awarded the islands to the United States.

Whitman Mission National Historic Site
This site commemorates the courage of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the role the Whitmans played in establishing the Oregon Trail.

Bureau of Land Management

Boundary Dam

Chopaka Lake

Douglas Creek

Fishtrap Lake

Folsom Farm Site

Lake Creek

Little Vulcan Mountain

Saddle Mountain

Split Rock

Turn Point Island

Bureau of Reclamation

Banks Lake

Billy Clapp Lake

Cle Elum Lake

Clear Lake Reservoir

Cold Springs Reservoir

Conconully Lake/Conconully Reservoir

Desert Wildlife Rec. Area

Easton Diversion Dam

Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake

Grand Coulee Dam

Kachess Lake

Keechelus Lake

McKay Reservoir

Potholes Reservoir

Quincy Wildlife Rec. Area

Rimrock Lake

Roza Diversion Dam

Scooteney Reservoir

Spectacle Lake

Department of Transportation

Chinook Scenic Byway

Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90

USDA Forest Service

Colville National Forest

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Okanogan National Forest

Olympic National Forest

Wenatchee National Forest

Fish and Wildlife Service

Columbia National Wildlife Refuge

Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Copalis National Wildlife Refuge

Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge

Flattery Rocks National Wildlife Refuge

Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge

Julia Butler Hansen Refuge For The Columbian White-tail Deer

Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge

McNary National Wildlife Refuge

Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

Pierce National Wildlife Refuge

Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge

Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge

Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge

Saddle Mountain National Wildlife Refuge

San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

National Ocean Service

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

US Army Corps of Engineers

Bennington Lake

Chief Joseph Dam and Rufus Woods Lake

Keystone Harbor

Lake Bryan

Lake Sacajawea

Lake Washington Ship Canal

Lake West

Lower Granite Lake

Mud Mountain Dam (White River)