Orcas Island 2024 Event

August 22 - 26, 2024 - West Beach Resort

Paddling days Aug 23, 24, 25th

General registration will open Thursday May 2nd at 9:30 pm

(Subject to change depending on TO recruitment)

TOs approved by the Trips Coordinator will be able to register earlier.

This event takes place in the lovely and always popular San Juan Islands on Orcas Island, Washington. We are camping at West Beach Resort, which has a store, restrooms, free showers, a hot tub, ice cream, a beachside bar, and its famous beachside campfire and popcorn. Daytime temperatures range in the high 60s, and it gets into the 50s at night.

Costs for the event is $170.00 to stay at an OOPS reserved West Beach campsites (shared) and $35.00 if you book your own accommodations.

Paddles to and around nearby islands are plentiful. The popular destination of Jones Island takes you through passes and around small islands to a pretty island park with a resident deer herd, sandy beaches, and trails through madrona groves and meadows. Or paddle to the more isolated and protected Yellow Island, owned by The Nature Conservancy, and is home to amazing wildflowers and frolicking seals, where you can hike with a 360-degree view of the San Juans. Take a trip to the many bays and islets of the horseshoe shaped Sucia Island and gaze at the interesting geology and strange rock formations. Paddles from Orcas give you a chance to see jellyfish, seals, and perhaps its namesake whale. Visit Mt. Constitution, rising above Orcas half a mile high, with its fantastic vistas of other San Juan Islands and Mt. Baker in the Cascades. Orcas has excellent pubs, wineries, restaurants, and shops, as well as the oldest pottery studio in the northwest.