Trip
Day Hike - Anderson Island Parks
Take a ferry ride to Anderson Island and hike down to Andy's Marine Park at low tide. After a picnic lunch, head back inland for a forest hike at Andy's Wildlife Park. This is an easy and fun Family hike.
Contacts
- Sun, May 15, 2022
- Olympia Youth & Family Activities
- Day Hiking
- Families, Youth
- Easy
- Moderate
- Mileage: 4.5 mi
- Elevation Gain: 50 ft
- 10 (10 capacity)
- 2 (2 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
The ferry ride is short but fun for kids and from the landing we will have a 10 minute drive to Andy's Marine Park. We will spend about an hour there before ascending and taking a cut off trail to the other park where we will spend up to 2 hours in the woods before returning to our cars and catching the 4:25 ferry back. If we miss that the next ferry is at 5:35.
This hike is for Families so all adults who sign up should be accompanied by a kid!
We will meet at the Steilacoom ferry terminal no later than 10:15 a.m. to catch the 10:35 ferry. We will consider carpooling since the ferry costs $19.93 per vehicle and driver but only $5.92 per adult and $2.93 for kids 6-18.
Required Equipment
All participants, including kids, must have a backpack with a waiststrap.
Adults should have the 10 essentials and kids should have essentials appropriate to their ages.
All participants should have rain gear, spare clothing, water, lunch, a snack.
We will be exploring a beach at low tide so boots or water shoes will be appropriate depending on the weather. We will be able to change shoes before exploring the Wildlife Park.