Potlatch State Park is a

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located on

Hood Canal Hood Canal is a fjord-like body of water that lies south of Admiralty Inlet in Washington State that some consider to be the western lobe and one of the five main basins of Puget Sound.Potlatch A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Scienc ...

in Mason County. The park offers camping, hiking, boating, fishing, shellfish harvesting, beachcombing, and sailboarding. Potlatch State Park was opened in 1960 on a prime piece of land that was traditionally territory of the

Skokomish people The Skokomish (pronounced ) are one of nine tribes of the Twana people, Twana, a Native Americans in the United States, Native American people of western Washington (state), Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives along Hood Canal ...

. The creation of this park has been the subject of land claims brought by the Skokomish people. The namesake of the Potlatch State Park, specifically the word "

potlatch A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Scienc ...

", refers to a gift-giving feast and ceremony practiced by Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States.

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Potlatch State Park
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Potlatch State Park Map
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission {{authority control Parks in Mason County, Washington State parks of Washington (state)