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Experience the history of the Gig Harbor Peninsula including its maritime industries and even a well preserved school house.
The Harbor History Museum is a regional maritime and history museum in Gig Harbor, Washington. It hosts exhibits on regional culture and history, and Midway Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1893 and moved to the museum's grounds in 2009. The museum won the Washington Museum Association annual Award of Project Excellence for an ongoing living history program called Midway Pioneer School Experience that leads grade-school students through a day in an early 20th century classroom.
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Harbor tours, sightseeing, charters and eco tours of Tacoma Narrows Bridges, Gig Harbor, Salmon Beach, Point Defiance, Thea Foss Waterway and the Port of Tacoma.
Rent a kayak, canoe or pedal boat to explore the harbor and beyond.
At only 15 ft tall, this is certainly one of the smaller lighthouses in the region but nonetheless plays an important role in marking the opening to Gig Harbor.
This protected marine area is considered one of the best shore accessible diving areas in Puget Sound. Known for its many friendly wolf eels and its 25 ft high rugged rock wall that runs along the shoreline for about 200 ft. There are also sightings of giant Pacific octopus, ratfish, copper, brown, and quillback rockfish, lingcod, greenlings, many varieties of sculpins, green sea urchins, scallops, rock sole, starry flounder, countless sea stars, warbonnets, gunnels, and different varieties of nudibranchs.
Open year-round for clam and oyster fishing. Colvos Passage Marine Preserve lies south of the County Park. Marine preserve restrictions do not apply within Sunrise Beach County Park.
18-hole public golf course, reasonably priced and well maintained.