Sucia Island State Park

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Sucia Island State Park

• Overview
• Location
• Facilities
• Anchorages
• Contact Info
• Related Links

Overview

Sucia Island is a Washington State Marine Park. Sucia Island is located 2.5 miles north of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, San Juan County, Washington, USA. Sucia comprises 10 islands including Sucia Island, Little Sucia, Ewing, Justice, Herndon, the Cluster Islands islets, and several smaller, unnamed islands. The group of islands is about 2.5 miles in length and just short of a half mile wide. The island is roughly the shape of a hand. The total land area of all islands is 2.74 km² (1.058 sq mi, or 677.07 acres). The main island of Sucia Island by itself is 2.259 km² (0.872 sq mi, or 558.1 acres). There was a population of four persons as of the 2000 census, all on Sucia Island.

Location

• Longitude / Latitude: 48.75150 / -122.9050
• Located at the 2.5 miles north of the Orcas Island
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Facilities

• Two docks with 12'x160' mooring floats
• 48 mooring buoys
• 5 pit toilets
• 9 composting toilets
• 2 water systems with 4 reservoirs totaling 22,700 gallons
• potable water
• drinking water available April through September
• 55 campsites
• 16 picnic sites
• 6.2 miles of trails
• 3.5 miles of service road
• 3 picnic shelters
• 2 reservation group camps
• and 1 underwater scuba park with locator buoy
• Garbage: pack-it-out.

Anchorages

• Shallow Bay on the islands west side is protected from all but westerly winds and waves. There are 7 mooring buoys and room for 40-50 small pleasure craft in this anchorage. There are beaches on three sides including a sandy beach to the north. "Pebble" beach in the center is the access point to the camping and moorage pay box, as well as a large group camping site with a covered eating area and environmentally friendly compositing out-houses. True to its name, Shallow Bay averages 12 feet deep. The anchor holding is good in sand but may be more rocky towards the center and mouth of the bay.
• Echo Bay is directly opposite the island's narrow isthmus from shallow bay and the largest of the anchorages, and the most exposed particularly to SE winds. There are a number of mooring buoys close to a pebble beach.
• Fossil Bay is one of the most popular anchorages particularly for small boats that prefer to tie up to one of two docks rather than anchor or pick up a mooring ring. Fossil bay is an inlet that opens to the south east.
• Fox Cove just west of and can be seen from Fossil bay, Fox Cove is bordered by Ev Henry Finger point and Little Sucia island.
• Ewing Cove is between the north east end of Sucia island and Ewing Island. There are is room for several boats at anchor or at a mooring buoy. The pebble beach at Ewing Cove is at the end of a 2.1 mile trail to the center of the island.
• Snoring Bay Just north of Fossil Bay. Contains 2 mooring bouys and no convienent way to get to shore.

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