Here is another installment of photos from our road trip to Anacortes, Washington in July 2022. You can find prior posts by following the Road Trip tag in the side bar. On a pleasant, somewhat overcast Sunday morning we headed out to visit the Samish Overlook. At 1,200 feet (365 meters) above sea level it has great views across Samish Bay to the San Juan Islands and across the farmlands of Skagit County. This panorama is the view that greets you when you step away from the parking lot. Click on the picture to embiggen.
I found out about the Samish Overlook when I was looking for good places to hike. That search led me to find the Oyster Dome trail, a five-mile round-trip hike with 1,050 foot (320 meter) elevation gain. In the end, I didn’t have any takers for the hike, but the overlook seemed like a good place to visit. And it was.
To get there from Anacortes, you need to go east to Burlington, take I-5 north exiting at Lake Samish road. Going west from there you turn left on Barrell Springs road and shortly come to a right turn to go to Mount Blanchard and the Samish Overlook. It was quite steep in a section shortly before arriving at the overlook, but apparently the road has been upgraded since I was there.
Here is a view looking southwest with Samish Bay in the foreground, Padilla Bay on the far side of the peninsula, and Anacortes in the distance.
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