About
LocationWA
RegionKitsap County
Managed byKitsap County
SizeMedium — about a day
Acres466 acres

Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park is a 3,493-acre county park founded in 2014, and is the largest in Kitsap County, Washington. It contains 60 miles of trails. The park property was acquired from Pope Resources/Olympic Resource Management, a forestry company, partly in direct purchases by the county government, and partly by the Forterra land conservation non-profit corporation who raised funds through individual donations and grants. Olympic Resource Management's Olympic Property Group proposed a public trail system in its Port Gamble property c. 2007. Invoking the Olmsted Brothers park planning, local groups envisioned a regional "String of Pearls" trail plan c. 2011 in the Pacific Northwest linking water trails linking the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula with the Kitsap Peninsula. A proposed system, the Sound to Olympics Trail, would allow one to cross Washington State by foot on a continuous trail system from the Pacific Ocean to the Idaho border. Kitsap County plans to embody a portion of the Sound to Olympics Trail in the Port Gamble Forest.

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Trails (14)
  • Beaver Pond0.7 mi · Easy · 63 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Buzzcut0.2 mi · Easy · 7 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • E.T0.3 mi · Easy · 82 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Ewok - ET0.1 mi · Easy · 20 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Ewok Climb Trail0.3 mi · Easy · 121 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Fern Gully0.6 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Mycelium0.4 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Ranger0.2 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Salamander0.5 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Secret Squirrel1.5 mi · Easy · 220 ft up · 45 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Springs0.2 mi · Easy · 68 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Stumps0.2 mi · Easy · 59 ft up · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Thunder cat0.3 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park
  • Titan0.3 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park

Trail data: USGS National Map / PAD-US, the National Park Service, state agencies, and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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