Cama Beach Historical State Park is located on the southwest shore of Camano Island facing Saratoga Passage. Cama Beach offers visitors a chance to step back in time to a 1930s-era Puget Sound fishing resort, complete with waterfront cedar cabins and bungalows. These have been refurbished, with modern conveniences added, and are available for rent year 'round to individuals and groups.
Families abound at Cama Beach both in current days and in days past. Native American families gathered during the summer months along the shoreline and in the forest to harvest foods; logging camp families gathered during the early 1900s to harvest majestic trees; LeRoy Stradley and his family gathered their resources and created the Cama Beach Resort in 1934; Washington State Parks “family” gathered leaders in the early 1990s to access the value of creating an additional state park on Camano Island.
Families still abound at Cama Beach—hiking trails, exploring the shoreline, vacationing in the historic rental cabins, visiting the store/museum, learning from the nature programs and activities, enjoying a meal at the Cama Café, celebrating life’s events in the Cama Center, renting a boat from the Center for Wooden Boats.
Families in nature are numerous in the 434 acres at Cama Beach State Park. Depending on the time of year, you may see baby animals when walking the trails, or the home of an animal that raised its family during the summer. Plant families are numerous also—colonies of ferns, salmon berries, alder, maple, work to get established in the understory of tall trees. Families of whales are frequently spotted in the Saratoga Passage.
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