Twanoh State Park — Attraction in Shelton

This beautiful state park is located on Highway 106 between Belfair and Union.It has a boat launch, day use, hiking trails, and campground. The camp is bisected by 106. The west side of the park has the boat launch and the day use. These two areas are connected by a beautiful wooden bridge that spans to Twanoh creek. Both sides have restrooms. Day use has a shelter that has electric and water.The day you side has a tennis court, playground, and pier. The coast is accessible on this side of the park and you’ll find it is rocky and has many clam and oyster shells along the beach. (By the way did you know that clams and shells oysters are covered with the The next generation of their species. Please shuck your yummy morsels on the beach and leave them there so next year you can come back and harvest more!) Fishing and shellfish harvesting our activities that this state park welcomes, you must have your state licenses and follow all harvesting and fishing regulations. The boat launch is open year-round, and they use is open seasonally in the summer months and with arrangements for special occasions. Contact the local Ranger. On the other side of 106 is The well-established hiking trails and the campground. The hiking trails are heavily wooded and run along Twanoh Creek towards the east side of the park. These beautiful trails are considered easy but are not handicapped accessible. Parking for the trails is on the same side of the park. The campground is well-established and has many beautiful huge old growth trees! This park is fantastic and autumn! The campsites Are very well-maintained. There are full hook up sites, partial hook up sites, tent sites, and walking sites. Camping reservations can be made online or you can chance there is an open site and register at the park. There are bathrooms and showers in the campground and this is also where the ranger station is located. This is a beautiful well-maintained park we look forward to...

I was pleasantly surprised to find this little campsite on a tenting trip to the Olympic Peninsula recently. I was hoping to make it into the national forest but was running late and losing light so I stopped here for the night. The campground sits under established conifer trees so there isn't much growth down low to provide privacy but the sites are all flat and have a picnic table, a fire ring, and running water (not turned on at all sites in all seasons). The sites are also very close together. Some sites have electrical hookups. There are walking/hiking trails and a creak directly adjacent to the campground and access to Hood Canal right across the road. The campground and state park were developed by the Civilian Conservation Core in the 1930s and the buildings have stone foundations and timber framing from that era. The park and buildings are in a fairly good state of repair. Restrooms were older but clean and usable. It's only a few miles up the road to Union WA for gas and food if you need them. I'd...

So the trail is nice, definitely go left first because you'll want to to get the incline out of the way. Our group also felt it was a bit higher than 400 ft. elevation ao juat be ready. There is a tennis court and clean bathrooms, camp ground, picnic area, and swimming area. There is also a pier. The swimming area has free life jackets over by the bathrooms which I thought was really cool. The beach is a pebble beach, not a sand beach so be ready for that too. Also the tables next to the swimming area have no shade so yea. The water was clean and lot of people had their dogs around. The park has specific areas for taking clams and oysters fyi. Over all it was a good hike and we really enjoyed it. Will be adding it to our list of repeats! Oh and near the top of the trail there is a meadow and its full of wild flowers so we thought it was like a bee field or something. Would be cool to catch lightening bugs up there!...