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Puget Sound is made of wetlands, pebble beaches, tidal flats, and salmon runs. You will find those features and more at Belfair State Park.
Located on Hood Canal between Shelton and Bremerton, the park's gentle breezes offer ideal conditions for kite-flying, windsurfing and kicking back on a warm summer day. Anglers can choose from fresh and saltwater fishing, and kayakers can push off onto the Cascadia Marine Trail and explore the Puget Sound waterways.
Belfair State Park is a 94-acre, year-round camping park on 3,720 feet of saltwater shoreline at the southern end of Hood Canal in western Washington.
FROM I-5 (TACOMA), take Hwy 16 West to Hwy 3 South, FROM BREMERTON, take Hwy 304 to Hwy 3 South. Follow Hwy 3 South to Belfair. Turn right at the signal after Safeway store, follow signs to park entrance.
There are eight reservable cabins, four in the main loop and four in the day-use area. Each cabin is furnished with a queen-size futon, a bunk bed that sleeps three, a table with four chairs, and a small end table. Pets are only allowed in cabin C-1 with a $15 per night pet fee. Reservations can be made online.
This is a beautiful and well-maintained state park at the end of the Hood Canal. Lots of parking, decent bathrooms, large open spaces, picnic tables, outdoor grills, etc. I haven't camped here yet but it looks like there are some great car-camping spots in addition to plenty of day-use locations. It can get pretty breezy here, so it's a great spot for windsurfing and kite-flying as well. Great park to walk the dog or just enjoy the scenery and take photos.
Olympic Otter
7/12/23 - 3 nights of RV camping with kids ages 6-9 and the dog. This state park is easy to find, access, and exit. It has the standard hours of WA parks. Check-in is 2 pm. Lots of spacious tent and RV sites plus numerous cabins.
Two creeks run through the park and are accessible to kids etc. The best RV camping area, by far, is the beach loop. Be aware of where you reserve your site. A few dozen of the sites border a primary road for this area. It is busy and noisy with heavy trucks, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, etc.
There's a popular playground near the main entrance and visible from the road. It requires a Discovery Pass.
There's an espresso/coffee hut directly across from the park entrance.
There are multiple restroom buildings and shower facilities. All of these are fully handicapped accessible.
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Great place to camp. Patrol guys are very friendly and approachable. Free hott showers if you are camping. Quiet. Beautiful water front.
Was able to book a site 5 days before camp, site 143 in the “Tree Loop”. As the name suggests, this area has more trees than the main loop. All of the sites are much smaller than most other state parks I’ve been to, and very close to each other. Even though there are trees or shrubs to delineate each site, you’re so close, you could clearly see & hold a conversation with your neighbors as if they were right next to you. And LOTS of road noise from the highway!
The bathrooms though dated, were clean. There is one shower each, for men & women. No coins needed, free.
The water access is the main attraction here, but it’s a hike to actually get in the water in the mud even at high tide.
Lots of families and dogs. Nice folks, quiet at night. Never seen such a patrolled park ever! The “armed” ranger presented himself at check-in and did a drive-by every hour all day.
This is a lovely park! The entire park is paved and mostly flat and is wonderfully wheelchair accessible. The (closed to camping for winter) forest loop is an especially beautiful walk with some minor elevated areas. The park is clean and well maintained and felt mostly safe. We stayed in the accessible spot T2 in the main loop. The public restroom near this spot was barely accessible in my manual wheelchair and is in pretty rough shape / quite old. The shower in this restroom is not accessible (too narrow to enter, lip on shower entrance, shower head too high). I can't believe I have to say this, but the dumpster in the campground is also not wheelchair accessible as it's this crazy oversized trash compactor on which the door is super high up and unreachable from my wheelchair. However, there are garbage cans throughout the park, especially in front of the cabins. I think it would be helpful if the park added such garbage cans near the accessible campsites as well. The bathroom near the ranger station is accessible, but due to the various sketchy men wandering about and leering at me, I did not feel safe using it. Both T-Mobile and Verizon cell service in the main loop was negligible at best (less than 1 mgs upload and download). Cell service was fine on the beach loop and in the day use area of the park near the water. The rangers and staff were very friendly and helpful! The park volunteers were cordial but treated me with clear disapproval. All in all I would return and recommend the park for wheelchair users especially if your van / RV has a loo.
