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Visiting Washington State’s beautiful state parks presents opportunities for visitors to expand their minds as well as enjoy the outdoors. History, culture and natural science can be studied independently or through the interpretive programs at many of the parks in the system.

Walking, riding, skiing or canoing trails and other activities expose visitors to the area’s natural environment. Travelers may also tour natural areas of particular interest like Gardner Cave in Crawford State Park, the coastal dunes at Ocean City State Park and old growth timber at Federation Forest or Lewis and Clark State Parks.

The parks also preserve historical structures including numerous furnished historical homes at Fort Worden, Lewis and Clark and Cape Disappointment state parks, the lighthouses at Cape Disappointment and Fort Casey State Parks and military fortifications in various states of restoration at any park with the word “fort” in its name.

Cultural heritage is another area of substantial offerings, including petroglyphs left behind by ancient residents in what is now Riverside, Ginkgo Petrified Forest and Yakima Sportsman State Parks, archaeological excavations at Palouse Falls and exhibits on the lifestyles early European immigrants and of CCC volunteers as well as native peoples at parks throughout the state.

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