About This Location:
Perched at the northern entrance to Puget Sound on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Fort Worden State Park is revered as a legendary gathering place; a site of retreat, renewal and discovery. With a 360 degree panorama of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, the Fort's 434 acres are bordered by pristine wetlands and miles of sandy beaches. Nearly a dozen learning-focused partner organizations call the Fort home, providing educational experiences for tens of thousands of citizens looking for a truly special experience.

Fort Worden was one of three artillery installations built around Admiralty Inlet at the beginning of the 20th century to protect Puget Sound from hostile naval activity. Though its guns never fired a hostile shot and were removed during World War I for use in Europe, Fort Worden was used for training a variety of military personnel and for other defense purposes. These three posts, established in the late 1890s, became the first line of a fortification system known as the "Triangle of Fire" and were designed to prevent a hostile fleet from reaching such targets as the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the cities of Seattle, Tacoma and Everett.