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Park on Summer Schedule
The American Camp visitor center is open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The English Camp contact station is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Grounds at both units are open from dawn to 11 p.m. These hours remain in effect through September 2. More »
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Detours Around Downed Skagit Bridge Functioning Well
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WDOT) has posted the link below for both northbound and southbound detours around the collapsed Skagit River Bridge on Intertstate 5. More »
The Pig War
San Juan Island is well known for splendid vistas, saltwater shore, quiet woodlands, orca whales and one of the last remaining native prairies in the Puget Sound/Northern Straits region. But it was also here in 1859 that the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over possession of the island, the crisis ignited by the death of a British-owned pig.
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2013 program Guide
San Juan Island artist Nancy Spaulding's on-site landscape workshop in August is one of many weekly and special programs offered in 2013.
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2013 Civil War War Lecture Series
San Juan Island NHP will explore the relationships between the Civil War and the San Juan Islands and Pacific Northwest in its 2013 lecture series.
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Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace is a national program which promotes the protection of our nation's parks and wildlands. Learn how it matters at San Juan Island NHP.
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Native Americans & Stewardship
Learn how American Indians and First Nations peoples shaped the region’s environment before the arrival of Euro-Americans.
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Prairie Panorama
American Camp's prairie is one of the last of its kind in the Puget Sound/Northern Straits region. Enjoy this and other park panorama views.
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Belle Vue Sheep Farm
The founding of the Hudson's Bay Company's farm on San Juan Island in 1853 radically changed the environment of what we today call American Camp.
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Did You Know?
American Camp's Officers' Quarters, built in 1859-1860, is the oldest structure on San Juan Island. It may have once been home to Capt. George E. Pickett of Civil War fame.