Trip
Day Hike - Bayshore Preserve
Come see the chum salmon migration with us! This is a family friendly hike to John's Creek where the Capitol Land Trust and Puget Sound Estuarium will have docents and underwater cameras to help us learn all about the amazing migration that happens right in our watershed.
Contacts
- Sat, Nov 8, 2025
- Olympia Youth & Family Activities
- Day Hiking, Family
- Families
- Easy, Easy
- Casual
- Mileage: 2.0 mi
- 5 (10 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
- Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
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This is a family hike to see the salmon come home! We will get to learn all about the life cycle of these amazing creatures from the Capitol Land Trusts docents and the Puget Sound Estuarium team. It will be a very casual paced adventure mainly focused on seeing the salmon, appropriate for all ages and geared towards kids and their adults.
As a family activity the registration requires permission asked for signing up youth. Please consider permission granted and sign up children accordingly.
We will meet up at 10 am at the Bayshore Preserve. We will plan for a couple of hours enjoying the salmon and hiking around, and then likely eat a picnic lunch before driving back to Olympia. The Bayshore Preserve is about 40 minutes from downtown Olympia.
Required Equipment
Family Hiking Gear includes:
backpack for adult and older children
water and snacks
extra change of clothes (we often get muddy or wet!)
family first aid kit
layers for the weather: this time of year we always plan on the chance of rain!
a picnic lunch so we can all eat at the preserve before driving home