Fort Worden State Park is a 433-acre multi-use park featuring 11,020 feet (roughly 2 miles) of sandy, salt-water beaches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It offers and a wide range of services and facilities. The park rests on a high bluff overlooking Puget Sound. Many historic buildings remain at this 19th century military fort.

Unique Features of the park

Fort Worden State park has many interesting aspects.

• It's generally sandy beaches, for one, attract visitors who seek to escape the generally rockier beaches of the interior of the Puget Sound.
• An extensive system of large, abandoned bunkers are avaiable for exploration.
• Beachcombers may see large ocean-going ships steaming in and out of the sound through the strait

General Information

Acoording to the parks.wa website, "Fort Worden, along with the heavy batteries of Fort Flagler and Fort Casey , once guarded nautical entrance to Puget Sound. These posts, established in the late 1890s, became the first line of a fortification system designed to prevent a hostile fleet from reaching such targets as the Bremerton Naval Yard and the cities of Seattle, Tacoma and Everett. Construction began in 1897 and continued in one form or another until the fort was closed in 1953. The property was purchased as a state park in 1955. Fort Worden is named after Rear Admiral John L. Worden."

External link

• (Washington State Parks website)