If you're a pickleball aficionado you'll want to stop by battle point park ( founders court) , so…read moremuch history about pickleball is displayed all around the park, the courts are in pristine condition and they are open and free for anyone to play. You are surrounded by beautiful trees such a fun experience I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves playing

Where history was made. The island where it all began! Though the true court #1 is private, we are…read morewelcome to play at the public park with a name as intense as Battle Point. The locale feels a poignant touch of history. All the friends and memories we pickleball players have made. All thanks to three dads one fateful summer afternoon. + There's a couple restrooms here and water fountain, but the restrooms are about a 3min walk away. + Plenty of parking. + Various friendly people to meet and play pickup with. I met both beginners and high-level players. Got a lot of fun and hilarious matches in. + There's shaded spectator seating, a rare thing I've noticed about pickleball parks. + I like the office toward the back with various amenities. There's a topspin trainer. And there's ice pops! Honor system. Leave cash for what you pick up.

This is truly a very magical place to go so many wonderful things to see the great view of the…read morewater. It is so relaxing, almost Zen like when you're here. So worth the trip just to sit relax, enjoy nature and just spend time with special people in your life.

A hidden gem that is amazingly peaceful. Hall's Hill Lookout is definitely a special spot to visit.read more

Tent sites are nice but camper sites are close together. The beach has to much drift wood for my…read morecomfort. You have to step over so much of it to get to the beach. The sand surrounding the beach is full of sticker plants and I was picking stickers from my dogs paws so he couldn't enjoy the beach area. The cabins only have beds. They don't have kitchens so you'll need to bring your own cooking source or cook on the fire pit. I had one day left when the grounds keeper came through with a leaf blower. Mind you the area where he was blowing was dirt and gravel. I didn't think much of it till he came around a third time and at that point I felt he was doing it on purpose so I packed up and left the campground. It is not a place I will recommend nor go to again. Some people love the spot but I've been to better places.

We love spending some time at the Fay Bainbridge park anytime we are on Bainbridge Island. We were…read morein Bainbridge Island recently and spent some time after lunch at the park. There's a lot of space and a play area for kids. We love walking along the shore, having to climb around driftwood. It was lovely watching the sky change colors as the sun set.

This was a fantastic stop on our Bainbridge Island trip. This is a part of the American…read moreHorticultural Society, so my botanical garden membership from home worked here. It's a HUGE reserve and just absolutely stunning. You're provided with a map when you come in. There is also ample parking available. There is plenty of walking trails and different flora surrounding the space. There are benches scattered around the reserve if you want to take a moment to soak it all in. It's a great forest bathing space. I loved visiting it.

beautiful. just beautiful. I've lived in Washington my entire life and found out about this place…read morevia Instagram and I'm so glad I was able to go. Tickets are bit on the pricier side but once you see how well the reserve is maintained you don't really bat an eye. I went to see the weeping willow and was not disappointed. A must see if you go to bainbridge island

Fort Ward Park was a nice place to visit. It was peaceful, scenic, and a great spot to walk around…read moreand enjoy the outdoors. I enjoyed my time there and would visit again.

There are two parking lots to this Park, one at the upper level and one at the lower level…read more I usually drive south from Lynwood Center along Pleasant Beach Drive NE and park at the lower level. Here you directly accesses a put-in for recreational boats and kayaks. The long, flat, paved trail is waterside and goes from the (lower) parking area to the erstwhile army cabins of this U.S. military installation. It is a pleasant waterside walk, which is incredibly hard to find on Bainbridge Island as every inch of it is cordoned off with hostile "Private Beach" signage of the rich who believe they can fortress themselves away... I enjoyed this walk because it was one place on the island to have wide open views (otherwise you are claustrophobic covered in trees). Across the water is a spit of land in Bremerton (the residential part) and further to the western horizons are the Olympic mountains. Periodically the Seattle to Bremerton ferry (or reverse direction) plies the channel closer to the Bremerton side. Then the quiet water channel will see some surging mini-waves. I love watching the seals playing in the water. A remnant set of wood pilings in the water makes for a stunning perch for a gaggle of cormorants...aquatic fowl with elegant necks that are bendy like ballerinas. Bird watching here is superb. I've seen great ducks on the rocks at the sea-kelp and sea-lettuce strewn water's edge. Other than the barnacle rocks on the beach, the main trail of this park is ideal for those with limited mobility. The upper parking lot has a steep trail down to the water, and it is not recommended for people with mobility issues (nor on slippery wet and icy days). All in all one of the best water access points on this otherwise rather tightly locked-away island.

the 5350 address on Creosote is closed for the super fund construction. But access to trails and…read morebeach can be reached from the memorial parking lot.

Beautiful beach park!…read more We came here after Japanese American exclusion memorial next door. Such a beautiful place. Massive beach, few ways to enter. Dog friendly! That's a plus. Sand, piers, boats. Views! And of course the beach. Baci had so much fun! I did too. Free parking. What's not to like?

I really enjoyed walking through Grand Forest on Bainbridge Island. The trails were peaceful,…read morebeautiful, and surrounded by so much greenery. It was a relaxing place to explore and enjoy nature, and I would definitely visit again.

Two enclaves of land preserved from suburban encroachment, which has not spared Bainbridge Island,…read moreare the East and West Grand Forest. Here, trees have grown back from the violent hacking and destruction of ancient groves during the 1870s-1890s Euro-colonizer "frontier" evisceration of life. The island was razed entirely. Not a tree left standing, nor the life they sustained, that emerged from millions of years of earthly intelligence unique to this place, with thousands of years of stewardship by indigenous cultural groups. A mere hundred years ago, Euro-colonizers cared more about production lumber than the glorious trees of the Pacific Northwest and the life they held in balance. Today in the same vein, fortressed mega- mansions of the new rich warn anyone off with "private property" signs around this patch where trees are left standing, ironically referred to as "The Grand Forest." A more apt moniker would be "Hint of what was once a Grand Forest." Still the average public, now confined to the suburban and urban rectilinear hard-surface prison existence would appreciate the respite of being inside the green bower. If you are attuned to communities of trees you will perhaps note that this forest doesn't have "death", or large fallen logs that feed the cycle of life and regenerate other trees with their nutrition. You'll see just a crowded jumble of trees that have regrown having not selected amongst themselves how to thin their shared canopy, allow the light in to nurture other trees, and to fully support an integrated life system. Indeed this forest is metaphorically on life-support itself and even so, it sustains the evapotranspiration that helps keep Bainbridge Island cool while nearby concrete capitalist metropolises bake and swelter. The forest helps retains moisture during the winter which recharges groundwater aquifers that are being sucked dry at a much more rapid rate by all the sad suburban cookie cutter edifices with their sprawling Bermuda Grass lawns. As you walk along the nicely laid out paths, I wish you only the best reveries of a kind, gracious form of life that sustained myriad other life in all directions, which is what the forest will be saying to you. Cross over from the West- to the East-enclave and find the old barn of a rich lady (Prue) who donated her family's property to create a connecting corridor between the two sections. Never mind the busy recreation-chasing groups of mountain bikers and sometimes horse riders. This is a place to reconnect your soul to the signals of the life force that brought you to be, notwithstanding your current capitalist industrial trappings. Viva el bosque.

This memorial documents and spreads awareness of the treatment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans…read moreduring WWII. More than 120,000 Japanese individuals were forcibly moved from their homes and essentially imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II on the sole basis of their ethnicity. It is so meaningful to step in the same path as those who were removed and learn about their stories while reflecting on the Memorial Wall. It's a very solemn, yet beautiful place. I learned about the Japanese concentration camps when I was in high school, but I don't think the full extent of it really hit me until adulthood and I physically visited these places and imagined myself going through this. As I kid, I didn't really think that deep about what it would really be like to be uprooted. If you want to further enrich your visit, you can download the NPS app and under Klondike Gold Rush Seattle Unit, there is a self-guided walking tour. Nidoto Nai Yoni -- Let It Not Happen Again.

Our friend took us here to learn more about the Japanese Americans who were taken from their homes…read moreand relocated to Manzanar in CA. I hope more people will visit to learn about the unfair and unjust treatments of the Japanese people. We were met at their temporary visit center by a volunteer named Clay. He was so nice and gave us a brief history of the Japanese American exclusion experiences. We did not know that the Japanese Americans on Bainbridge Island were the first group to be taken from their homes. And they were only given 6 days to get their affairs in order. The memorial was very nice and there's a beautiful view of the bay at the end. How it most have been so hard to leave the beautiful island home.

This is a charming little public green space. A few parking spots are available on the side of the…read moreroad at the trailhead. The path winds down a forested area that is lush and shaded. Moss and mushrooms sprout everywhere and the elbows of trees have fuzzy ferns growing out of them. At the bottom of the slope the trail forks and has a short option to the left that goes down to the rocky beach. From the beach you can see the ferries coming in from Seattle. Going back up to the fork, the trail to the right goes over some marshy low areas before spitting out alongside a short stretch of road, and finally to a small pier overlooking the water. It isn't a large park but it makes for a nice walk with people who don't have the interest or stamina for a full hike. From the ferry leaving Bainbridge it is fun to look back to the shore. You can tell where Hawley Cove Park is because it it is the stretch of beach that has been left wild and green sandwiched between houses on either side.