Tahuya (Washington)



Tahuya is a tiny town on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Puget Sound of Washington state, on Hood Canal’s North Shore overlooking the Great Bend. It is almost at the “end of the road.”

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The Olympic Mountains as seen from Hood Canal

By car

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Tahuya is on North Shore Road, a forested drive 16 miles southeast of Belfair.

By boat

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  • 1 SummerTide Resort & Marina, 15781 NE Northshore Rd, +1 360 275-9313. Reservations are required at this privately owned marina in Tahuya, on the north shore of Hood Canal. Daily, monthly and seasonal moorage is available with dock. SummerTide boat launch is open to the public year around. Maximum size boats that can be launched is 24 feet and that would depend on your vehicle and trailer length. Boats can be launched up to a zero tide so please check tidecharts and plan accordingly. The moorage docks are put in before May 1st and removed sometime in September. There are 22 inside moorage slips that can take up to a 20' boat. There are several outside slips that can handle much larger boats. They offer annual moorage and nightly moorage, but do not allow guest to sleep aboard their boats. Nightly moorage for non-guest is on an availability basis. Reservations are required. A single launch is $10.00 or buy an annual launch for $100.

Get around

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Map
Map of Tahuya (Washington)

See

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The remote southwest corner of the Kitsap Peninsula offers many boating, fishing and hiking opportunities. This area has many small lakes, as well as access to the Hood Canal.

  • Hood Canal, one of only two inland fjords in the lower 48 states, has depths ranging to 600 feet. Despite its name, it is not a canal but an inland fjord that stretches for over 70 miles inland separating the Kitsap Peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula. It is a prime destination in the area for outdoor recreation and nature viewing with sweeping views of the Olympic Mountains and lush forests. Near the southern end of the Kitsap Peninsula it hooks inward at an area known as the Great Bend.
  • 1 Tahuya State Forest (near Belfair), +1 360-825-1631, . A 23,000-acre working forest located on the southeastern portion of the Hood Canal west of Belfair. This popular year-round destination area attracts more than 200,000 recreational users each year. Tahuya offers recreation opportunities for a variety of activities, including off-road vehicle riding (ORV), horseback riding, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, camping and other uses. Tahuya is primarily a destination area for ORV riders. Each year more than 150,000 motorized recreationists and 50,000 non-motorized recreationists visit the forest. Tahuya State Forest (Q110088358) on Wikidata

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Sleep

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  • SummerTide Resort & Marina, 15781 NE Northshore Rd, +1 360 275-9313. the resort offers cabin rentals and RV Parking. Cabins range between $110-$175 per night and RV Parking prices change depending on location but full hookups are available..

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