Harbours and anchorages near Friday Harbor

Jones Island State Park

Jones Island is a small marine state park west of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington, with anchorages at its North and South coves.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Stuart Island

Stuart Island is a marine state park north-west of San Juan Island in Washington, with two well-sheltered harbours: Reid Harbor and Prevost Harbor.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Pelican Beach

Anchorage off Cypress Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington, on a rocky bottom, with shelter from the west but open to the east along Bellingham Channel.

• Sheltered N, S, SW, W, NW

Fossil Bay Sucia Island State Park

Fossil Bay is a sheltered bay on the south side of Sucia Island, a marine state park in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S, SE

Echo Bay Sucia Island State Park

Echo Bay is the largest and deepest bay on Sucia Island, a marine state park in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

• Paid
• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, SW, S, SE

Patos Island Marine State Park

Anchorage and two mooring buoys at Active Cove, the northernmost San Juan island in Washington, close to the Canadian border.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SW, S, SE

Spencer Spit

Anchorage off Spencer Spit State Park on the eastern shore of Lopez Island, San Juan Islands, Washington, overlooking Lopez Sound.

• Paid
• Sheltered NW, W, E, SW, S, SE

Roche Harbor

Resort marina at the north end of San Juan Island in Washington State, with 425 berths in a sheltered harbour.

Matia Island

Anchorage in East Sound, the long inlet that cuts into Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S

Matia Island State Park

Marine state park anchorage in the San Juan Islands, Washington, off Rolfe Cove on the northwest side of Matia Island.

• Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE

Patos Island

Patos Island is the north-westernmost point of the contiguous United States, a marine state park in the San Juan Islands of Washington reached only by boat.

• Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE

San Juan Island

Anchorage off San Juan Island, in the San Juan archipelago of Washington State. Sand and weed bottom, sheltered from east through south-west.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Islandale Anchorage

Anchorage in Rosario Strait among the San Juan Islands of Washington, between Lopez Island and James Island.

• Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

James Island Marine State Park

Small uninhabited island in the San Juans, in Rosario Strait off the east shore of Decatur Island, run as a marine state park with a 128 ft dock in West Cove and four mooring buoys in East Cove.

San Juan Island Yacht Club

Members club with a single reciprocal berth inside the Port of Friday Harbor marina, San Juan Island.

Warbass Way Marina

Private 50-berth condominium marina on the south side of Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, 400 metres south of the Washington State Ferry terminal.

Shipyard Cove Marina

Port of Friday Harbor marina with 135 year-round berths and a working boatyard, 1 nm south of downtown Friday Harbor on San Juan Island.

Islands Marine Center

Full-service marina and boatyard in Fisherman Bay, Lopez Island, operating since 1972.

Deer Harbor Marina

Family-run marina on the south-west side of Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, open year-round.

Cayou Quay Marina

Small private marina in Deer Harbor on the south-west corner of Orcas Island, San Juan Islands.

West Sound Marina Inc

Largest marina on Orcas Island, in the lee of Picnic Island at the head of West Sound, San Juan Islands.

Orcas Island Yacht Club

Private club moorage on the north shore of West Sound, Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands of Washington state.

Roche Barbor

Anchorage off Roche Harbor on the north-west tip of San Juan Island, Washington, with a mud bottom and shelter from most directions.

• Sheltered N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Blakely Island Marina

Small private-island marina at the north tip of Blakely Island, off Rosario Strait in the San Juan Islands.

Brandt's Landing Marina LLC

Private 75-berth marina on the north shore of Orcas Island, dug out as an inland basin in the 1960s and run by the Brandt family since the early 1970s.

Skyline Marine Center

Full-service marina and boatyard on Flounder Bay at the north-west tip of Fidalgo Island in Anacortes, the closest mainland gateway to the San Juan Islands.

Flounder Bay Yacht Club

Members yacht club on Flounder Bay at the north-west tip of Fidalgo Island in Anacortes, Washington.

Snoring Bay

Small cove on the south-east side of Sucia Island in the San Juan Islands, Washington, within Sucia Island Marine State Park.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW

Anchor Cove Marina

Private condominium marina on Guemes Channel at 1600 5th Street, west of downtown Anacortes, with 167 berths and views over the channel to Mount Baker.