The pool at Everett's Forest Park Swim Center is great for sea kayaking course field trips and practice sessions.

A forest enclave in Everett's city limits, with trails, covered picnic areas, swim center, meeting rooms, play area, horseshoe pits, and plenty of grass to play on. It's great for field trips, meetings and social events.

A tavern and pizza restaurant in Issaquah right off of I-90 that is great for meetings.

Fort Ebey is a moderate hike of 10 miles with 50 feet of gain.

Fort Flagler State Park

Explore, discover and connect with history. Experience life in Washington Territory during the fur trade era.

A fantastic heritage site with easy paved and dirt trails that boasts restored dairy farm buildings, a labyrinth overlooking Waughop Lake and views of Mount Rainier on a clear day.

Enjoy an easy hike of 4.5 to 6.5 miles round trip and minimal elevation gain through a heavily wooded park near Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula.

Explore the beaches, trails, old gun placements at 434-acre Fort Worden State Park and Conference Center in Port Townsend. There are 12 miles of hiking trails and 12 miles of biking trails in addition to many day use, camping and conference center facilities.

A more strenuous approach to Lake Ann in the Teanaway reached from from Salmon La Sac river valley to the west. There is also accesses Van Epps Pass and the south slopes of Scatter Benchmark and Scatter Creek. There are 4WD trails in the area, so hiking is best done during the week.

Multiple options for touring the Wenatchee Mountains in the Teanaway River and DeRoux Creek drainages.

The public dock on the southwest side of Tacoma's Foss Waterway. This dock is accessible from ramps in front of the Rock the Dock Pub & Grill and the Foss Waterway Seaport.

A strenuous, 12 mile in-and-out day hike with 4,370 ft in elevation gain up to Icicle Ridge near Leavenworth. The trail switchbacks up steeply over open slopes with small groves of Ponderosa Pine, to a lookout with views of the Cascades.

Approximately 25 miles of trails for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the greater Spokane/Coeur d'Alene area with access to ungroomed backcountry trails. There are two warming huts and great views plus plenty of snow.

Sea kayak 11 nautical miles around Fox Island in South Puget Sound, just 5 miles from Gig Harbor. It's a South Sound classic. Also consider padding across Carr Inlet to Penrose Point, paddlign to Hale Passage & Wollochet Bay, paddling in Toliva Shoal, or hiking on the island's beaches.

A moderate day hike just south of Bellingham in the Chuckanut Mountains on a trail that switchbacks up to Fragrance Lake and then onto the more isolated Lost Lake.

Hike to the rarely visited, beautiful Frances Lake, nestled in a high alpine basin below Hurricane Divide in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains. Ascend well-graded switchbacks over an 8,600 ft pass and descend 900 feet to the lake. Explore meadows, streams and tarns in the lake basin, enjoy birds near the trail and lake, and other wildlife on slopes of Hurricane Divide.

View the dramatic flight of thousands of migrating Vaux Swifts into their tall roosting chimney at the Frank Wagner Elementary School in Monroe. The best time for viewing is at sunset from mid-August to early September.

An easy 2 mile hike or snowshoe from the Denny Creek Campground near Snoqualmie Pass to a beautiful waterfall. Great in summer for cooling off or in winter for a magical snowy adventure with your family.

Follow an old railroad grade on this easy hike along the Green River near Black Diamond, through the history of the 1880's coal-mining ghost town of Franklin. It's an easy walk up to the abandoned and now sealed mineshaft, past a large coal cart bearing the town's name, and on beyond to the powerhouse foundation and cemetery. This is an interesting forested low-land walk that is good year-round and for the whole family.