Great little waterfront city park. It's a pleasant diversion from downtown retail. I suggest…read morewalking the public dock and admire all the pleasure craft. Most boat owners on board are friendly and happy to talk boating. You can find craft and art fairs here and live music too.

Lovely small park on the waterfront. On my map it is listed as Liberty Bay Waterfront Park…read more A public parking lot is between the park and shops on Front St. Holds maybe 200 cars and has a 3hr parking limit. You can easily walk to shops on Front street where you'll find pizza, coffee, antiques, art, chocolate, schnitzel and more. A public restroom building in the park was closed during our November visit. The Austin-Kvelstad pavillion is a covered patio that would keep you dry in a drizzle, but is open to the wind. The park sward is intersected by concrete paths, the pavillion and a waterfront boardwalk that extends beyond the bounds of the park along the waterside. The park was busy on a sprinkling November day. Plenty of pups out for a walk with their humans.

Love love love this park! Campsites are amazing and it's a…read moregreat family park. Exploring Fort Worden is such a fun adventure it's a family event for us yearly! I have to give a special shout out to the amazing park rangers for this years annual visit. We stayed for a long weekend and camped with friends. On our check out day , just one hour before our check out time we decided to do one last walk on the beach. While walking on the beach our friend had a medical emergency and had to be rushed to ER. We we're unable to check out on time and I immediately went to park rangers and explained we may have to stay an additional night.... They were so understanding and even though they had to move other campers to other spots they assured us it would be ok . Well we were able to eventually check out later that day and it was several hours past check out...... they actually refunded us the extra $$$ we had paid for not checking out on time. We love this place and the extra care the park rangers showed was amazing!

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.

My wife and I went camping here last weekend and Oh My Gosh was it beautiful!! I'm still adjusting…read moreto how populated camping in WA is, so put the campsite neighbors and noise aside this was a great spot! (It wasn't too noisy, and people respected quieter night hours). The beach is a quick 5-8 minute walk from the campground, depending on where your spot is. And there's also plenty of hiking paths around the peninsula! I think we clocked in at 1.5 miles, but it's kind of steep in parts. My favorite part about the campsite was the tree cover. There was always shade throughout the day, which kept the temp cooler. It also lightly rained for several hours Saturday afternoon and then again over night, but with all the trees our picnic table stayed mostly dry and our tent didn't get too soaked! Overall, very beautiful park and campground. I want to come back and experience this place again

Spent one night here recently. The winter (upper) loop was pretty good, not massive spaces but way…read morebigger than some with decent privacy on certain sites. We walked through the lower loop on our way back from the trail...closed for the season, but it looked even better, sites seemed bigger and more private overall. Beautiful trees and shade throughout. We took the battery and interpretive trails, nothing fantastic but still enjoyable with some nice bay views and little critters along the way. We ran into the campground host once who was very friendly and helpful. The day use area was good, with a large picnic building and lots of parking. Overall a nice, quiet stay and well-kept grounds.

One of the hidden treasures of Kitsap County, an extensively gardened park near Tracyton has many…read morechildren's activities and gardens in a nearly wild setting. It's maintained by a non-profit. Highlights include a natural "Native Plants" trail, a butterfly house, beach access, picnic areas, Master Gardeners demonstration garden sponsored b Washington State University Extension. And there's great charm in visiting each little plotted area that children care for, growing veggies for a local food bank. It's easy to fall in love with the place and end up volunteering on sundry projects and events and care of the park.

A beautiful park full of majestic, tall trees and a wide assortment of other wild plants. Best part…read more- there are handy signs with pictures throughout informing the hiker about all the wild flora and fauna. There are a bunch of trails winding throughout - mostly flat but several up and down hills and through gullies. Very dog friendly!

I live near this place and it's super easy to just come up here to take a break and be with nature…read more the trails are easy, and the forest is small, so it's hard to get super lost. I would be careful though, there are a c homeless drug addics who hand around that place. Some times I can hear this one guy screaming from down the hill. It's also super liminal at night, if you're into that kinda stuff. But I do not recommend for kids to come here alone and stuff cause of that one guy. there's also a field down the hill that's near the school building. It's really fun to go and hang out there, but that's also where the drug addict is. There's also a swing set that lost its swings. it makes me sad whenever I see it, because I love swings. It's also super liminal. If you head to a road that leads to the road net to the school building, there is a pot hole that's shaped like a heart. I think it's really aesthetic. Right next the park there's a giant patch of barren land. on the edge, there is a wall covered in graffiti. I went there with my little sister once and splattered old paint all over it. We also found an old wet porn mag on the floor. that was funny. I'm gonna make a backrooms level based off this park because it looks really liminal at night. I like this park. I wish it was big enough to have a wendigo in it. That would be cool.

Nice little neighborhood Park. Playground equipment, Picnic tables, Green Grass, Restrooms, a path…read morearound the park, even a couple Park Benches. What's unique about this small little park is that it's a Community P-Patch Garden and Demonstration Garden. From my research I've found that it started in 2009 and has grown significantly over the last four years. The garden program is a partnership between WSU Extension Master Gardener Program and the City of Bremerton Parks & Recreation Department. The Land was known as White's Blueberry Farm, a commercial enterprise that harvested blueberry plants. I've heard that a small number of the original blueberry plants remain and can be found in the NW corner of today's Blueberry Park. This place seems like a great place for new gardeners just starting out, or for seasoned gardeners looking to share their knowledge with others. They even donate most of the produce to the Bremerton Food Line. It's worth a stop just to relax a bit and check out gardens that other folks have been working on.

Not too bad of a park pretty well-maintained Lots of walking area and even an nice track. It is…read morenice if you're trying to avoid the large crowds because I don't hardly ever see too many people at this park

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.

I loved this place! Absolutely stunning trail. It's tucked away and you don't hear any cars going…read moreby to distract you. I went on a gorgeous sunny day for a trail run and was not disappointed. It really is gorgeous. The trail is tight and offers lots of turns and ups and down and be careful of the ruts sticking up so you don't trip. If you follow it down to the beach and stump house, it's steep. nothing crazy but let's just say I ran down but there was no way I was running back up lol. Oh and stay off Ridge trail. It's very over grown and closed due to a previous storm. I forgot I saw a hand written not on the trail sign and went on it later‍. I went March 5 2018 and it was closed then.

I have a tough time giving nature any less than 5 stars, ya know? I don't get a few of the other…read morereviews but maybe we are just out for different experiences. My two kiddos (8 and 4) and I were looking to get out of the house and into the woods for a bit so we came out to finally see this stump house. Parking is a small dirt lot on the side of the road. Cross over and there are marked trailheads. There are two trails down. One is sawmill trail which will take you all the way down to the beach (once closer to the beach the drop off is quite steep and trail very narrow.) and the other trail spits you out onto a gravel road. You can continue on the gravel road down to the beach or walk a hundred feet or so and take the sawmill trail. We took the gravel road down and I couldn't help but feel like I might be on private property because at the top of the trail it said to keep on trail because of private property. BUT once we got down we realized that yes, this road does take one to the private property but that it's permitted for park goers to use the road as well. One car came down as we were walking and parked to make their way down to the beach. There really isn't a dedicated area to park here, just a turn around spot so maybe plan to drop off if you go this route. And your car needs to be out an hour or two before sunset or you get locked in. There was a fellow yelling for the car owners as we were on our way back but they were nowhere to be found. Once you get down to the beach access point there is a detailed map to see the entire layout of the park and trails. You cross over a little bridge and to your right is the beach and to the left is the stump house. The access point was flooded so rain boots were a must. The water and mud was about ankle deep in the more shallow areas. It's doable. Don't let a little water stop you. From the bridge we went left in search of the stump house and found it in about five minutes of walking the trail. A cute little stump, hollowed and some fixings nailed up to make it took like a home. Inside there's a book to sign your name and maybe add a quote or story. Also, a treasure box to leave something behind. It was a really cool spot for the kids. We headed back after this as it was getting late. So I cannot speak for the beach area. We'll get to that next time. We took the trailhead to the left this time. There's an old, gutted house that's surely to fall to pieces soon at the head of the trail. This trail is extremely steep and while it was more serene than the gravel road it was a workout. Overall, it's a great little hike for the entire family. We even saw a bald eagle. Note: there are no restrooms or running water.