San Juan Islands anchorages and marine parks

11 places · Pacific Northwest

A hundred and seventy-two islands between Seattle and Vancouver, in the lee of Vancouver Island: Echo Bay and Fossil Bay on Sucia, Reid Harbor and Prevost on Stuart Island, Jones Island, Spencer Spit on Lopez, Patos and Matia, Garrison Bay and Roche Harbor, Friday Harbor for the town. State park buoys cost 15 dollars a night. Three to five knot streams in the passes, orcas in June.

1. 1Anchorage· US·5.0

   Echo Bay

   Large anchorage in the centre of Sucia Island, a Washington marine state park in the outer San Juan Islands, 2.5 miles north of Orcas Island.

   • Buoys

   48.7623, -122.9062See on the chart →
2. 2Anchorage· US·5.0

   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.

   • Buoys

   48.7498, -122.8993See on the chart →
3. 3Anchorage· US·5.0

   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.

   • Buoys
   • Up to 14 m

   48.7622, -122.9180See on the chart →
4. 4Anchorage· US·5.0

   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.

   • Buoys

   48.6789, -123.1960See on the chart →
5. 5Anchorage· US·5.0

   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.

   • Buoys

   48.6178, -123.0474See on the chart →
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   6Anchorage· US·4.5

   Spencer Spit

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

   • Buoys
   • Up to 14 m

   48.5376, -122.8536See on the chart →
7. Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington from Portland, America
   7Anchorage· US·5.0

   Patos Island State Park

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

   • Buoys

   48.7853, -122.9669See on the chart →
8. 8Anchorage· US·4.0

   Matia Island State Park

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

   • Buoys

   48.7488, -122.8445See on the chart →
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   9Harbour· Roche Harbor, US·4.2

   Roche Harbor

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

   48.6099, -123.1542See on the chart →
10. Chiwauk
    10Anchorage· US·3.0

    Just outside Friday harbor

    Anchorage just outside the breakwater of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington, with weed and mud holding.

    • Water

    48.5437, -123.0161See on the chart →
11. 11Anchorage· US·5.0

    Turn Island

    Mooring buoy field off Turn Island Marine State Park in San Juan Channel, Washington, with rocky holding.

    • Buoys

    48.5336, -122.9741See on the chart →

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