Priest Point Park

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Description

Priest Point Park is a public park located in Olympia, Washington. Established in 1905, it was the city's first waterfront park, providing access to the Budd Inlet of Puget Sound. The park includes picnic shelters, nature trails, a large playground, basketball courts and public restrooms, as well as a mile of saltwater shoreline along the Budd Inlet of the Puget Sound. Ellis Cove juts into the park, and features a trail lining its perimeter. There is also a formal rose garden. Birding at the park offers a variety of species, including the northern flicker, downy and pileated woodpeckers, red-breasted nuthatch, and brown creeper. osprey nest north of Ellis Cove, and the mudflats and rocky beach host greater yellowlegs, western and least sandpipers, and dunlin. Bald eagles and pigeon guillemot are frequently in the park as well.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Ellis Cove Trail
  • Mission Creek Park
  • Rose Garden Trail

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Central and Ethridge [nb]
  • Disabled
  • Pine and McCormick [wb]

Copyright

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Brylie Oxley https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-WA-Olympia-PriestPointPark-2013.01.12-026.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).