What to do in San Juan Islands, WA

Activities, attractions and tours

Lime Kiln Point State Park featuring heritage architecture, rocky coastline and a lighthouse
Lime Kiln Point State Park featuring heritage architecture, rocky coastline and a lighthouse
Orcas Island featuring mist or fog, landscape views and mountains
English Camp showing a lake or waterhole
San Juan Islands featuring general coastal views, boating and a sunset
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What to do in San Juan Islands

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Roche Harbor Drone

Roche Harbor Marina

Explore the waterfront in Roche Harbor with a trip to Roche Harbor Marina. While you're in the area, stroll along the seaside.

Roche Harbor Marina
Lime Kiln Point State Park featuring forest scenes and a house

Lime Kiln Point State Park

Also known as Whale Watch Park, this diving site is one of the best places in the world to view wild orca pods from the shore.

Lime Kiln Point State Park
Lighthouse off the Washington Coast, San Juan Island National Park

San Juan Island National Historic Park

You can learn about the history of Friday Harbor when you stop by San Juan Island National Historic Park. While you're in the area, stroll along the waterfront.

San Juan Island National Historic Park
Orcas Island showing a lake or waterhole and landscape views

Cascade Lake

Relax on the beach of this picturesque lake, swim and kayak in the calm water and follow hiking trails to viewpoints and a waterfall.

Cascade Lake
San Juan County Park which includes a lake or waterhole as well as a small group of people

San Juan County Park

A hotspot for kayakers, this scenic and diverse campsite is the perfect retreat for both those wanting to relax and adventurists.

San Juan County Park
If you haven't been to Orcas Island, go next summer. It is the most beautiful place I have ever been.

Eastsound Beaches

Why not spend a lazy afternoon at Eastsound Beaches during your trip to Eastsound? Discover the sunsets while you're in the area.

Eastsound Beaches
North Beach Inn is a collection of super cool beach cabins from the '50's on Orcas Island's north shore. Cozy as heck -- fireplaces, sea views, full kitchens, modern baths, vintage furniture, the odd creaky bed and no wifi but with a hot toddy and feet up you notice little but the charm of the moody, island weather. Nightly: $145 and up. • northbeachinn.com • #OrcasIsland #SanJuanIslands #inns #vintage

North Beach

Why not spend a lazy afternoon at North Beach during your trip to Eastsound? Discover the sunsets while you're in the area.

North Beach
San Juan Island featuring island images, landscape views and a lighthouse

Cape San Juan

Visit the Cattle Point Lighthouse and see if you can spot some seals at the southern tip of San Juan Island.

Cape San Juan
Wescott Bay which includes a small town or village and a lake or waterhole

Wescott Bay

Commune with nature and explore the great outdoors at Wescott Bay during your travels in Friday Harbor. While you're in the area, stroll along the waterfront.

Wescott Bay

Day trip destinations from San Juan Islands

Aerial View of a Summer Sunset On an Island in the Salish Sea. Drone shot of Lummi island's Legoe Bay during a lovely sunset with fishing boats anchored in the sea with Orcas Island in the background.

Rosario

Waldron Lookout, accessible via a spur trail at 1.5 miles up the northern trail. Turtleback Mountain is a wilderness-preservation success story. Recently the target of a development effort on Orcas Island, a popular weekend destination for people from Seattle, it was saved from that fate largely by the efforts of one man and his organization, Tim Seifert, executive director of the San Juan Preservation Trust. Thanks to their work, the mountain is now a wilderness area, in perpetuity. As a bonus, a network of trails is now available to allow hikers and sight-seers a chance to explore the mountain. The trails are beautiful and serene and not nearly as crowded as those on the more popular Mount Constitution, which sits on the other side of the island. There are just a few open viewpoints, such as this one, but they do pack a punch. Beyond that, the forest scenery is just fantastic.

West Sound

Orcas Island featuring a house

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