Salmon Viewing Season is Here!

Salmon rising from the water.

Welcome home, salmon! Salmon are now returning from the ocean to spawn in Snow and Salmon Creeks, the Duckabush River, and Chimacum Creek. We encourage you to go see this amazing natural phenomenon at Snow Creek Estuary Preserve, Duckabush Oxbow & Wetlands Preserve, and/or Illahee Preserve.

Salmon make their epic journeys, swimming in from the ocean and up the very streams in which they hatched, in order to spawn and complete their life cycles. View a neat “map” of the salmon life cycle by clicking here.

When viewing the salmon, please be kind to the fish and other wildlife by:

• Remaining on designated trails (and off of live or dead streamside vegetation)
• Keeping voices and loud noises to a minimum, and
• Leaving your pets at home.

Salmon-viewing season usually lasts through mid-November. Hope to see you out there!