Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

08/18/2026

Join us this Saturday for some free estuary yoga! Sign up is below

Inspired by the rhythms of Padilla Bay and the ebb and flow of the tides, this gentle outdoor class offers an opportunity to move, breathe,

07/21/2026

It’s that time of year again… Letterbox on the upland trail!

This year we have 16 boxes created by local fifth graders that you have to search for on our upland trial. If you find at least 13 you can be entered to win a prize at the end of summer!

Come get a pamphlet to stamp at each box then drop it in the mailbox located just inside the interpretive center. Good luck searching!

07/08/2026

Check out many free summer classes happening at Padilla Bay!

Pollinator workshop this Saturday still has openings 🐝

Presented by Susan Waters and staff of Quamash EcoResearch

06/17/2026

Hello friends and visitors. The Breazeale Interpretive Center and staff offices will be closed Friday 6/19 in observation of the Juneteenth state holiday. The upland trail, picnic area, overlook and beach will still be accessible, but our facility will be closed. We will open again for our regular hours (10-4) on Saturday 6/20.

04/30/2026

Big changes are coming to the Padilla Bay uplands!

During your next visit, you might notice several of our fields have been covered in black tarps. These tarps, which are made of recycled billboard vinyl, will stay on the fields throughout spring and summer to heat and kill the non-native pasture grasses underneath. In the fall, the tarps will be removed, and our staff and community volunteers will seed the fields with native wildflowers like camas, golden paintbrush, sea blush, and globe gilia. This is the next stage of our coastal prairie restoration project, which aims to restore 15 acres of native grassland habitat by 2028.

If you’d like to see these plants up close (including a flowering golden paintbrush!), check out our prairie demonstration bed by the interpretive center on your next visit.

04/01/2026

It was so great to have everyone in the collab visit!

03/25/2026

Not doing anything this Saturday? There are still a handful of spots open for our guest speaker this weekend! Sign up for free below

Hear about how ROV surveys within kelp forests and open-source AI models are used to process survey images and extract data