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☆ Beautiful! Clean! Real Bathrooms with Toilet Paper and Sinks with Soap! There are also Picnic Tables and Firepits for Roasting Hot Dogs or Marshmallows... Or For a Nice Fire to Warm You in the Colder Months and Chilly Sunsets! And DRINKING FOUNTAINS as well as Dog Water / Foot Washing Stations.
☆ Parking for 40+ Cars I'd Estimate. With at Least 2 Handicap Park Spaces and a Wheel Chair Ramp that goes from Parking Lot to the Bathrooms and Upper Picnic Tables!
☆ Semiahmoo is a Long Thin Peninsula. It Narrows to almost a Point about Half Mile or So NE of the Beach. Picnic Tables and Firepits are on Either Side of the Road. Near the Parking Lot!
☆ If You are on the West Side of the Beach, where the Sun sets, You can Look NW across Drayton Harbor (BLAINE) & You'll Be Looking at White Rock B.C.
☆ I'm Not Positive about this, but I believe Beach Fires are Prohibited... But once in a While I see People Make Small, 2 - 5 Person Fires on the Beach at Dusk or Just Before Sunset. * The Picnic Table / Firepit Combos are Above the Beach, in the Grass...
☆ FIRES In The FIREPITS Are OK! *( Except During a "Burn...
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This is one of our favorite parks. There are paved trails (especially on the south side) but we usually walk the beach.
The south side has calm water and looks south over Drayton Harbor toward Mt. Baker.
The north side, though, is our favorite -- it looks toward Canada and out into the Salish Sea. High up it's fairly Sandy, nearer the water it's increasingly Rocky -- a geology buff's dream. The rocks are mostly smooth and it's fun to hunt for agates and other interesting stones; the variety is endless. Love exploring at low tide, too.
There's also a nice picnic area and plenty of grassy area to walk around if you don't feel like going on the beach. There are often bunnies around -- and sometimes bald eagles.
Oh and there's a cannery museum, as this used to be the site of large canneries. Worth a stop if you happen to be there during their limited weekend hours.
As you go east on the beach, it gets sandier. There's a restaurant at the Semiahmoo Hotel at the East end of the spit, but we usually go into the little shop at the marina to grab coffee and a snack and to look at their assortment of...
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TIP: Make sure you ask Google Maps for Semiahmoo PARK (not Semiahmoo SPIT) to get correct directions to the parking lot.
Restrooms are clean and generously sized with wheelchair access. There's also a foot wash.
During one visit (the weekend of the Wings Over Water Festival in March) the museum was open. There's a LOT of interesting information in those three rooms! The main focus is on salmon fishing/canning history, and the two volunteer docents were a treasure trove of interesting information! One of them even went outside with us to the salmon processing machine to explain how it works. We were so happy to have visited on an "open" day.
And of course it was interesting to see the birds along the spit. The more interesting ones for us this time were the surf scoters, white-wing scoters (seemingly thousands of them!), pintails,...
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