Samish Beach
Samish Beach is a beach in Washington, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Lyman Hill stands 1,311 m to the east, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Samish Island Park, a park 0.3 miles away. ANACORTES TO SIDNEY, BC passes 8.2 miles off.
The story
Beach in Skagit County, Washington, United States.
Wikidata Q49324572, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the ANACORTES TO SIDNEY, BC
- 7.8 mi off the Cascade Loop, National
- 15.9 mi off the ANACORTES TO SAN JUAN ISLANDS
- 16.5 mi off the San Juan Islands
Overlooks nearby
- Chuckanut Drive Heritage Marker · 4 mi
- Samish Overlook · 5 mi
- Burnout knob · 5 mi
- Madrone Crest Viewpoint · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Samish Island - Goldston Conservation Easement: 1.6 mi
- Vendovi Island Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Blanchard State Forest: 5.9 mi
- Dog Woods: 6.3 mi
- Bay View - Miceli Conservation Easement: 6.7 mi
- Guemes Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Chuckanut Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Olivine Hill: 8.0 mi
- Little Round Top: 8.6 mi
- Sugar Cube: 8.9 mi
- Driftwood Giraffes: 5.9 mi
- Public Art: 7.2 mi
- Havekost Monument: 9.8 mi
- John Joseph Donovan: 10.0 mi
- Daniel Jefferson Harris: 10.0 mi
- Samish Island Park: 0.3 mi
- Samish Island Beach Access: 1.1 mi
- Smith & Vallee Sculpture Park: 3.5 mi
- Guemes Island School House Park: 5.2 mi
- Young's Park: 5.5 mi
- Altair - Americus Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Lady of the Sea: 6.0 mi
- Seafarers Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Keith Shugarts Playground: 6.1 mi
- Really Big Tree Trunk: 7.2 mi
- Dogfish beach south: 4.3 mi
- dogfish beach: 4.3 mi
- Sunrise Beach: 4.9 mi
- Sunset Beach: 5.0 mi
- Joe Hamel Beach: 6.3 mi
- W.T. Preston Museum: 5.8 mi
- Anacortes Museum: 6.1 mi
- Heritage Flight Museum: 8.9 mi
- Whatcom Maritime Heritage Museum: 10.1 mi
- Children's Museum of Skagit County: 11.7 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 6.8 mi
- Devils Slide: 9.2 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 9.4 mi
- Main Wall East: 9.9 mi
- Snag Buttress: 9.9 mi
- Samish Island Acres Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Biology garden plot: 11.0 mi
- York Community Farm: 12.2 mi
- Roozen Gaarde: 12.3 mi
- WeGrow Garden: 12.5 mi
- Crown Yacht Charters: 6.0 mi
- Jolly Mon Charters: 6.0 mi
- Anacortes Yacht Charters: 6.4 mi
- I-5 Sloth "Slothy": 8.8 mi
- Tulip Town: 11.1 mi
- Chuckanut Falls: 8.8 mi
- Silver Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
- Whirlpool Falls: 12.9 mi
- Hidden Falls: 14.8 mi
- Cavern Falls: 15.1 mi
- Whitney: 9.1 mi
- Park: 13.4 mi
- Skagit City: 15.1 mi
- Standard: 18.6 mi
- Ehrlich: 20.1 mi
- Bow Hill Southbound Rest Area: 7.9 mi
- Bow Hill Northbound Rest Area: 8.0 mi
- Custer Northbound Rest Area: 23.5 mi
- Custer Southbound Rest Area: 25.0 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Green Point Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
- Rosario Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 15.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Samish Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyman Hill | E 85° | 1,311 m | 16.5 mi |
| Bigfoot Hill | NE 39° | 943 m | 17.8 mi |
| Stewart Mountain | NE 42° | 941 m | 17.1 mi |
| Bigfoot Hill Northeast Peak | NE 39° | 940 m | 18.4 mi |
| Slash | NE 37° | 935 m | 17.2 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | NE 43° | 816 m | 10.6 mi |
| Anderson Mountain | ENE 77° | 736 m | 11.8 mi |
| Mount Constitution | WNW 296° | 732 m | 15.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:42 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 20:27 | 21:17 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 08:00 | 15:23 | 16:18 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 44 | 47 | 51 | 57 | 61 | 65 | 65 | 61 | 53 | 47 | 42 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Anacortes, 6 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Anacortes, Guemes Channel, WA, 6 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356541184
Day trips start here
- Edison · 4 mi
- Anacortes · 7 mi
- Burlington · 11 mi
- Lummi Island · 11 mi
- Bellingham · 13 mi
- Deception Pass State Park · 13 mi
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