{"id":765,"date":"2019-11-29T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T23:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=765"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:07:51","slug":"our-historical-parks-hutchison-park-camano-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Our Historical Parks &#8211; Hutchison Park, Camano Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanwood and Camano Island have many local parks to enjoy holiday hikes. Almost all of them are historical parks and thanks to many years of interpretation projects, their stories are there to be read.<br \/>\nOur two State Parks plus a few little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandcountywa.gov\/PublicWorks\/Parks\/Pages\/camano-island-parks.aspx\">Island County Parks<\/a> (Barnum Point, Iverson, English Boom, and Kayak Point on Port Susan are great places to observe wildlife, sunshine and possibly share your memories of the parks and how they were established.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_817\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-image-817 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0567_2HutchisonPark500-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hutchison Park Camano Island\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0567_2HutchisonPark500-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0567_2HutchisonPark500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hutchison Park, Camano Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the South end of Camano Island, the Walter G. Hutchison Park was established in 1979 and is used by neighbors, walkers, and bikers and those who are just on a drive around the island. \u00a0 It is perhaps our smallest park with a short trail maintained by local volunteers and we know very little about it. \u00a0It is located at 3227 South East Camano Drive.<\/p>\n<p>We have been looking into more information to properly document its history and will update this story when we can.\u00a0 Contact us if you know more information.<br \/>\nNow it has a new feature, it&#8217;s own little library in a telephone booth managed by our park volunteers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1569\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"wp-image-1569 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Walter G Hutchinson plaque dated 1979.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt-624x350.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0568cropt.jpg 1337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter G Hutchinson plaque dated 1979.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2237\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2237\" class=\"wp-image-2237 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-768x1186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-1326x2048.jpg 1326w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt-624x964.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/HutchisonParkcropt.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see larger image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1570\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1570\" class=\"wp-image-1570 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180905_131919382_HDR400-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Little Library in the telephone booth, South End Camano Island\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180905_131919382_HDR400-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180905_131919382_HDR400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Library in the telephone booth, South End Camano Island &#8211; Update &#8211; Though the Phone booth is still there the library has been discontinued due to vandalism.\u00a0 The phone booth was installed by a mystery person back in 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanwood and Camano Island have many local parks to enjoy holiday hikes. Almost all of them are historical parks and thanks to many years of interpretation projects, their stories are there to be read. Our two State Parks plus a few little Island County Parks (Barnum Point, Iverson, English Boom, and Kayak Point on Port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sites-tour","category-historical-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}