Deception Pass Park Foundation

The Deception Pass Park Foundation’s mission is to provide financial and volunteer support to Deception Pass Park for the purpose of promoting education and preserving the Park’s natural, cultural, recreational, and historical resources. In 2005, a group of concerned Deception Pass State Park neighbors came together and decided it was time to do something about the disparity between the general funds available to the Park and the enormous backlog of projects needing funding. Through their efforts, they created The Deception Pass Park Foundation. The foundation became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in 2006. Deception Pass State Park is subject to increasingly uncertain state funding, which seems to come and go like the tides. The Deception Pass Park Foundation works to support Deception Pass State Park and provide valuable facilities and services to its visitors. The Foundation raises funds for the park and also assists with volunteer recruitment and program/projects. All of the money raised by the Foundation goes to the direct benefit of the educational and resource protection programs of our favorite park.

Each year, Deception Pass Park Foundation works with Deception Pass State Park to identify places and projects where DPPF’s effective mix of private philanthropy, volunteerism, and strong partnerships will most benefit the park’s critical needs. Through volunteer mobilization, membership funds, grants, donations, and advocacy we accomplish things like: -Funding an AmeriCorps member each year who works hard during the summer bringing interpretive programs to park visitors. -The Beach Naturalist Program designed to promote interpretation and conservation at tide pools and beaches in our area. Volunteers are trained in several topics so that they can interact with school groups and the public at the Rosario Tide Pools. -Historic renovations have been made possible because of the Deception Pass Park Foundation, as well as construction of new buildings like North Beach Amphitheater. -Run volunteer events in the park to clean the campgrounds during the off-season. Run the Adopt-A-Trail and Adopt-A-Bed programs.