Great hike in the SeaTac area. I had some time before my flight home and I went on this woodsy hike. A parking pass is required to park, which I didn't have, but I rolled the dice since I was just planning to be there for a couple of hours. Great walk with plenty of other people around. Please come and create your own adventure. read more

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Good trail and campground areas. I went a mile into the trail and it is steep in some areas but very easy for the most part. Great for a midweek day hike or daily dog walking if you live nearby. read more

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Recommend parking in the campground lot for easy access to all the hikes. We did the trail to the beach and then the Old Boundary Trail on the way back. Should have planned it better since the elevation gain was substantial on the Boundary Trail. Head to the beach on it instead. Plenty of water in the rivers and bridges were fun. Bathrooms and water available. read more

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This is five minutes from my house. It's always fun and the weather always cooperates. My kids love the water and so do I. read more

This guy was a complete jerk..... This is such an easy process...... Everybody else here is great. You'd probably have a wonderful time. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm disabled or native American that bothers him. Everybody else is great read more

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Great big park full of trails, views and a beautiful beach There's a campground as well with cute cabins or more than 100 secluded sites Great place to get away and enjoy the outside read more

Dash Point State Park - Tall trees - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

I stayed at the RV camp site for one night and it was well managed and clean. The cell reception is bad at the camp site but you get cell service down at the beach. It's a good spot to retreat and get some quiet time. It's not my favorite location personally but I'm picky! read more

Dash Point State Park - Sunset at the beach. - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

The trail itself offers a diverse experience. In the early morning, the air is crisp, carrying the scent of pine or damp earth mixed with a hint of salt. The light streams through the canopy of trees, casting dappled shadows on the path. This provides a sense of peace and seclusion. Running on the trail engages you fully: you're watching for roots and stones, listening to the birds, and enjoying the slight undulations of the terrain, which keep your run interesting and challenge different muscle groups. It's a journey through nature that recharges you before the day even begins. read more

Dash Point State Park - Walk way to beach - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

I liked this park. I will say, it's a bit confusing to navigate through if you don't pay close attention to the signs. But I love how spaced out the spots are so it does feel pretty private. We got a pull through rv spot, the ground was SO uneven I did spend a good 45 minutes trying to find a good angle to park the rv where we weren't going to be sleeping upside down. But hey, that's half the fun! Love all the trails that were connected to the state park. Would definitely stay here again. Our spot was HUGE!! read more

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Day-trip parking is close to the narrow beach and, depending on tide, mudflat. The park is fairly peaceful and has pretty waterside views. After visiting the shoreline, we walked part of a path through the wooded interior, finding lush green growth, a pleasant brook, and hard-packed dirt trails with some constructed boardwalks, hill-climbing steps, and a bridge. First impression was mostly positive. We did not see the camping areas, but encountered several trail walkers who appeared to be staying in the park. The park is possibly not large and varied enough for an extended visit or special trip. It seems ideal for locals and could be an appealing campsite. We'll need another visit to get a clearer picture. read more

Dash Point State Park - A stream flows through a green woods. - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

We camped here for two nights. I'd say the campground isn't the best. - The bathroom isn't very clean. - It's really far from the beach, you have to drive. That is a big pain point. - Junior ranger programs are quite late on Saturday, and didn't work for our schedule. - Except day 1 of our trip there was no staff or ranger on site. read more

Really enjoyed visiting Dash Point beach. It was cloudy but the views were still gorgeous. The beach is pretty large, and sandy by Washington standards! They have nicely maintained wooded trails too, not too far from Federal Way. Great place to visit. read more

Dash Point State Park - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

Trail has a lot of shade and sight seeing trails. There are trails for beginners and more advanced hikers. read more

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Dash Point is a solid park for the wanderer, adventurer, camper...who doesn't wanna be too far from amenities either. It'll scratch the wilderness-itch midweek, or when you wanna escape a bit but still have chores to do later. The trails are well-kept. Some moderate bits but overall easy. Blackberries are everywhere right now, and ripening fast. Best part is this trail is mostly shaded, but not too buggy. Perfect for warmer weather. Take a pic of the trail map - you'll want it in case you have a time constraint. The beach is also beautiful. Low tide in the mornings is worth a visit. Lots of cool creatures you can spy when the tide pulls back. Lots of families swimming in the afternoon as well! The bathroom isn't awful, camp grounds are also well-kept. Overall a wholesome family spot that has something to offer for everyone. read more

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Good spot for family and dog. I came to visit for the first time in a sunny 80 degree day in March. The beach was full. But since it was low tide in the afternoon, I was able to take my dog to walk along almost the entire beach. Then we did the short hike starting on the other side of the parking lot, to the campground and back. Tip: Discover Pass required. Get it for $30, which is good for one whole year. read more

Dash Point State Park - Beach and Outbound Trail - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

With (some) state parks & trails opening back up, we've been coming to Dash Point State Park on sunny days. It's right down the road from our house which makes it VERY convenient. Right now with social distancing, I've been pleasantly surprised to see everybody being respectful of everybody else's space and the park hasn't been too overly packed. The parking lot is kind of small for a state park, and each time I've gone recently it's only been about half full, which is good. There are tons of trails here that venture into the woods alongside the beach. I haven't had the chance to check them out yet but I'm really interested in doing that sometime soon. Another bonus is that it's pretty clean. Thankfully, guests are good about tossing their stuff in the trash or packing their belongings out. Bathrooms are open right now (even during COVID-19), they just ask that you limit the amount of people who are in there at one time. The beach itself is really fun to walk along. Our almost 2 year old absolutely loves coming here to throw rocks into the ocean, watch all the different kinds of birds, and even find huge LIVE dungeness crabs on the beach. Dogs are allowed on leash as well - be a good human and keep them on leash, and clean up after them. Don't ruin the good thing for everyone else! Highly recommend this spot if you're in the area. We bought a Discover Pass because it is $10 a day to come here, but $30 for an entire yearly pass that gets you into all state parks. Definitely worth the money! read more

Dash Point State Park - Flowers along the beach - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

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This park has a campground, trails, and a beach area with access to the Puget Sound. Like feet in the water close. The parking lot is huge and the trail leads alongside a creek and through a tunnel to the beach area. There are bathrooms, picnic tables, and a shower for rinsing off. A tall one and short one for feet only. Dogs are allowed here and there were loads of them. Leash is required. Discovery pass required. As far as beaches go I was just so happy to be near water, smell seaweed and put my feet in the water that I loved it. It was nice to have shade to sit in and fin to see everyone enjoying the water. You can go far out here into the water. Maybe next time I'll wear a bathing suit. Maybe. Super beautiful day to enjoy the outdoors. After a while on the beach we decided to explore a trail. The trail heads back and under highway 509 alongside a creek. I grabbed a map and discovered we barely scratched the surface of the trails here. Fun vibes. Cheers and happy Yelping. read more

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My visit took place on Dec 2020 .. it was very cold!!! But gosh it was still, calm and so beautiful to see the expansive shoreline. The vegetation everywhere is just heaven on earth for me!! Seeing the vast trees and nature was just an experience and quite the trip I'll never forget and hope to repeat several times in my lifetime. Happy Earth Day 2022! read more

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Beautiful dog friendly park! I can't believe I've never been here before. There are trails to walk on, but the best part is the beach. It was so fun seeing all the dogs too. Will be back here many more times! read more

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This place was okay. Tide was very low at -2.5. We didn't get a chance to clam though. Maybe we will come back ?

We needed a RV park near Tacoma. This was a few miles. Perfect so we thought. Extremely well shaded sites. No internet or cable, even with 5G on our phones. Calls were possible. Showers required tokens & my wife felt too uncomfortable to even use them due to people coming just to use restroom & leave park. Not super clean. Any visitors to your site must pay a $10 fee if they get out. Only exception is pick up or drop off. Park was clean. There are cool trails to beach. Beach is fun walk, but bring rubber boots. Biggest problem with park is no one is in Ranger Kiosk. This campground is totally open at night with cars driving through at all hours. (Grand Central Station) Saw cars pulling in, doors open, items transferred, or people sitting in cars for long time with engines running, worst yet sitting in cars with loud music. One car pulled in stayed a few hours then dumped 4 large bags of garbage. Some people were living in their cars/vans/homemade tents. They are required to pay like anyone else, but some looked shady. I am happy I conceal carry or we may have left. We were there a couple nights before we even saw a Ranger drive through. I got to talk with him about the garbage dumped he responded that they were trying to investigate it by going through trash. He was also matching plates with permits bought, removing people who haven't paid or giving them the option of paying at kiosk. My best sleep was that night after Ranger Hoag made his rounds. If you decide to stay here get a spot near the host, safer/quieter. If they get the cars driving through all night, cars/trucks with their engines running all night, & shady deals at all hours of the night we would love to stay here again. If we do we will get site 4 or 49 near to host. read more

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Coming here in the winter months you have to remember it is cold but what else can you expect from the PNW. Sorry I've been on the east coast the last 3 years and still have days I have to remind myself a beach day is not the same. But if you dress accordingly you can still have a blast. There's tons of seashells on the beach for the kids to find and rocks for them to throw back in the water. What also makes Dash Point State Park unique is you have a mixture of beach as well as trails for people of all ages. Dash Point really lets you take in and appreciate all that the outdoors have to offer, even in the chillier months just dress accordingly. read more

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Great place for hikes, but easy to get lost. Make sure to prepare with maps/GPS, bring water, have a plan.

This a nice trail and beach combination tucked away in Federal Way! Once you're done walking the trail, it is nice to relax on the waters. The beach itself is not my favorite as it is not sandy like Alki and Golden Gardens. It is more like wet solid sand/dirt with sandy areas here and there You can reference my photos to understand. However, it is still quite nice to enjoy the view and relax. Based on my experienced it is quieter in comparison to other beaches. read more

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While the sandy beach is small (especially at high tide), enjoy sweeping views of the Puget Sound. Visitors can camp (mostly small, shady spots), hike a few trails through the forest or watch for squirting clams on the beach when the tide is low. It is heavily used but encompasses nearly 400 acers, dozens of picnic tables, a shelter and rest rooms (at both the upper and lower parking lots). Discovery pass is required. read more

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We went during winter and I really enjoyed the nice secluded park. The price was very affordable and the walking trails were lovely.

I Love This Park! ...Serene and A nice place to go with Family! I go often in the Summer it's a good Deal to get The Washington State Park Pass to get to enjoy All the Amazing Parks in the State. I've visited many with my family it's what I love is the Outdoors and the Beautiful Trees and Sandy Beaches and Lakes. read more

Peaceful trail with creeks, wood bridges and a pretty beach aside the parking lot. Total 11 miles, but depending on your plan and time to spend in the park. Within 10 minutes, you can drive to the dash point pier for fishing, where the chance to fish flounder out is very high. Enjoy... read more

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I have mixed feelings when it comes to Washington state's state parks. I have gone to some places and I seriously had to wonder why a certain stretch of land got to be a state park while other state parks that I have been to here are beautiful and truly worthy of state park status. To me Dash Point kind of falls somewhere in the middle. It is significantly better than some of the other state parks I have been to but not as spectacular as others. Dash Point indeed has a beach and is sandy. Something that my little dogs would love to romp on. They do however need to be leashed at all times which kind of prohibits from them really getting some intense exercise that you can provide them at the ocean shore beaches. The beach itself (when I was there) had a lot of seaweed washed up on the shore so that kind of was a damper on going on a long walk along it... and the beach itself runs into private property pretty quickly to the south. Still like most beaches along Puget Sound you get a great view. What made me like Dash Point a lot more than the beach was all of the walking or hiking you can do in the park. I really enjoyed that most of all. I walked from the day use parking lot all the way to the east end of the park. It was a great walk! There are good maps for "you are here" but you can still get turned around easy... at least I can. So me being a bit of a Pokemon Go nerd I played the game while walking and the game app actually had a pretty decent layout of the major paths so you have some direction as to where you are going most of the time. The game crashed twice near the campgrounds so I'm not sure if something odd is going on signal wise around there or if it was me getting the luck of the draw. As far as picture taking goes the paths in Dash Point don't have a lot of unique picture ops unless you go along the stream down in the south part of the park or at the beach. Like all of Washington's state parks you need the Discover Pass which you can get at various locations or you can do the single day use pass for $ 10 which you can get at the day use parking lot. They accept cash, check or credit card. If you do credit card you need to call a number to get an authorization code to put on your day use slip. I have a friend that lives in the Brown's Point area. He is a member of a community group there and around the same time that I was there it was reported that one of his neighbor's who parked in the day use lot had their car broken into. So just like anywhere else keep your door locked and keep valuables out of sight from passersby. read more

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COVID era review. We had a lovely weekend camping trip here, our first visit. There are numerous sites. Ours was quite small.... The only possible places for our family tent were either 6ft from the road or 6ft from the fire pit. We made it work.... It seemed like other sites we're much bigger but the blackberries had taken over ours. You read that right BLACKBERRIES! Many not quite ripe but we did enjoy a handful. Not that blackberries are hard to come by but we live in a condo, so private access to fruit is always fun for my kids. A number of trails in the park. We did one accessed from the campground. It was fairly narrow. Some hikers wore masks, many didn't. The highlight for our kids was a pond full of tadpoles. The day use/beach are was very busy. We actually decided not to go because there were so many people in the space - no one seemed to be wearing masks. No firewood sold at the park but we were directed to a nearby small market. All sites were booked when we arrived but some were vacant for the duration we were there. We'd definitely consider another trip here! read more

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This park is so amazing! We have so much fun in the different direction the trail goes !!! It's has not been represented properly! If you are a first time hiker this trail is for you so much path to explore without sweating climbing or rough roads to follow just plain adventures and pleasure of nature surrounded around the pathways read more

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Visited the park today had a blast. We came at low tide and had lots of beach area to explore and find shells. Our toddler loved wading in the water and playing with the sand. Park was not heavily populated with visitors. Hoping to explore the trails on the next visit. read more

Edit: This review is actually for Dash Point Park, not Dash Point State Park. Sorry for any confusion. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Ever watch a movie and were amazed with the filming location? Dash Point is this place. It's a quaint, small community on the shore of the Puget Sound with homes climbing the hillside, some waterfront homes atop the beach and also abruptly placed behind a small sea wall that lazily curves around a point. A well built pier with holes bored out for fishing poles, sporadic cleaning counters and fresh water hoses for cleaning your catch are placed smartly down the length of the pier. Catching sharks isn't uncommon here. It's calming and breathtaking at the same time. We watched as seabirds were feeding on a small school of bait fish. At low tide, the beach was deep with drift wood marking the previous high tide. This park is definitely on my return visit list, not to mention my future vacation home list. I'll be back... read more

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A beautiful escape so easy to get to, head straight west out of the main road in Federal Way off of I-5 and you'll get there in a few miles. We were pleasantly surprised by the beach and the views tho the beach is pretty short:( We took a stunning and quiet walk on one of the many many trails. There are maps posted throughout the parks at the start or intersections of trails with distance marked so you can plan depending on how much time you have. You are supposed to have the discovery pass to come here even for walks but we didn't know that and didn't get fined in the two hours we spent here from 7-9 in the eve on a weekday. read more

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We camped for two days in one of the small cabins. Nice place, clean, fire pit outside, heater which kept us warm in February, camp host was able to sell us firewood and there was more firewood for sale at nearby convenience stores. We'll probably go back again some day. Some minor complaints - the showers only took tokens and the token selling machine only took ones and fives, so I had to drive to the convenience store and buy a coffee then drive back to buy tokens to take a shower. It also would have been nice if they had a manual for operating the heater in with the binder of tourist materials, it took me a while to figure it out. As long as you bring enough ones and fives (an exact change for firewood, which was 7$ a bundle), should be fine. read more

Recently came to this beach with the kids to have some time in the sun and play some beach sports. It turned out too not be my favorite Beach. Actually when the tide is low it's kind of icky. The public bathrooms are an upside. I'll just touch on that a little bit longer because it's a positive point of the visit. The public bathrooms were probably as clean as you can get for a public beach bathroom. I've seen it all in the public bathrooms at beaches in public parks in this bathroom was pretty darn clean. Way to go Dash Point Beach for keeping your facilities clean! :-) But I just couldn't get over those little jumping flea like things are all over the place it really put a damper on things. And there isn't really much beach to stretch out and play on. Say that you want to come down and play a game of volleyball, well I couldn't find the place for that. West Seattle Beach gets pretty crowded but even so; I think we'd be better off when it comes to finding room for Beach Sports. That's all I really have to say about Dash Point Beach. Maybe it's a great place for the locals but not my favorite place to go with children. read more

I decided to rent one of the cabins in the camping area just to get away for a night. The cabin was real nice and super clean. The campground was very quiet. I have read many reviews saying the campground was noisy, but when I was there it was not. The Ranger was very nice and he said good morning to me. I made the reservation online which was easy and the communication with the staff was excellent! I received a phone call and was given the cabin door code. Check in time for the cabin is 230 and check out time is 11 AM. If you've already made a reservation everything is self registration so when you pull up to the gate house there's a registration form to fill out you just fill it out and put it in the box. If you do not have a reservation there is a list of available spots posted at the gate house and when you find a spot that you want ,you fill out the registration form put the payment in the envelope and drop it in the box. Anyway, I enjoyed my stay and hope you will too! I'm looking forward to booking again ..maybe a couple nights this time. read more

Hmmm how do you rate nature and the natural beauty surrounding the area? It's really tough thing to do! All I know is that when it's a nice clear day, minimal clouds in the sky and the sun is shining bright; you can't go wrong being outside feeling your being one with nature!! Today was just one of those beautiful days, the sun was shining bright and I couldn't help but want to be outside. Since moving up here to the Northwest one of the biggest challenges for me was getting used to the weather. I grew up and came from living in the hot, dry and always sunny desert of Palm Springs, Ca. I had to take advantage of the beautiful weather because it always seems to be far and few between here. I wasn't the only one with the same idea today because when I got to the parking area the lot was actually full of cars and people scattered all about the shoreline. There was children playing in the playground area and even couples walking up and down the pier holding hands enjoying the sun! This area is perfect place to just relax and unwind, enjoy a picnic, get sand between your toes, fish if that's your thing and just be. I consider this place my little hideaway even when the weather is gorgeous it can get crowded! read more

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It is so peaceful here!! I love that it is a close drive from town with good parking and easy access in general. The next time we're here we want to try the hikes. read more

Dash Point State Park - Parks Near Me - Federal Way, Washington

Want to get away in an hour or less? Want to walk on a SANDY beach on Puget Sound that isn't littered? Want great mountain bike trails? Want to camp? This is a great getaway when you don't want to go far. Campsites are on the smaller side and less private than some places, but they are surrounded by lots of big trees. If you do camp here, bring your own firewood, it can be hard to find in the area. 11 miles of trails, some for hiking, some for biking, some for both. I wish I'd brought a bike. These aren't strenuous hikes, but definitely pleasant and some variety. Footbridges over a stream, views, birds. The beach is great. The earlier you get there and the cloudier it is, the less of a crowd you'll find. Sand, herons, views, picnic tables. Great place to spend a day. read more

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