4 Best Sights in Washington Cascade Mountains and Valleys, Washington

A10-minute drive from Gig Harbor, this is a wonderful beachcombing area at low tide. Native American tribes once fished and clammed here, and you can still see people trolling the shallow waters or digging deep for razor clams in season. Children and dogs alike delight in discovering huge Dungeness crabs, sea stars, and sand dollars. Picnic tables and walking trails are interspersed throughout the 109 acres of steep, forested hills, and the campground is popular all summer.

At this park right off U.S. 12, 4 miles west of Mossyrock, you'll find a handy boat launch. The RV and tent camping sites are especially scenic, with lake views, forest settings, and even lakefront spots. Fish for trout, bass, and coho salmon.

Fish, camp, and boat at this park on Riffe Lake, just a few miles east of town. The lake is stocked with cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout, and coho salmon, steelhead, and bass.

This wooded, 139-acre park is en route to the coast. Along the way are several shallow waterfalls cascading down shelves of rock. The park, which opened in 1935, has towering old-growth forest and 3,400 feet of freshwater shoreline along the Chehalis River.