Kids raised on our Puget Sound beaches, however, might look at those pristine strips and wonder: Where’s the driftwood for forts? Rocks to turn over for scurrying crabs? Pebbles for tossing?

A shellfish farmer on Little Skookum Inlet in south Puget Sound reported the muddy sand on his beach reaching 135 degrees. “It was a Murphy’s Law of extreme heat and the lowest tides of the ...

The Seattle Aquarium's summer beach-naturalist program, now in its 11th year, helps showcase for visitors Puget Sound's natural wonders at low tide.

It is easy to find crabs of all sizes and colors when exploring a Puget Sound beach at low tide. Metro Parks Tacoma Courtesy Living in the Puget Sound-area, you likely know a lot about crabs ...

Heidi Wilken, lead dive safety officer, front, and Olivia Castro, diver, head out to an area in Puget Sound near Tacoma’s Owen Beach to survey kelp, Monday, July 24, 2023.

Another world comes out during the extreme ebb tides of spring and summer on Puget Sound, when geoducks poke their siphons into the air, purple sea stars cling to the undersides of rocks and tiny ...

In addition to the beach, the lighthouse is the park’s star attraction. The oldest lighthouse along Puget Sound, it has been in operation since its completion in 1879.

A plan to create artificial reefs in Puget Sound using automotive tires was created by Washington's Department of Natural Resources.

OLYMPIA — A biologist says a dead whale that washed ashore this week on a south Puget Sound beach is a tropical whale thousands of miles from its normal range.

Authorities have resumed their search for the woman who abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappeared with her 8-year-old son. Lt. Chris Mealy of the Thurston ...

"The beach, it's like, solitude," says Leland Miyawaki of Seattle, one of a small but growing group of anglers who fish the beaches of Puget Sound year-round.

In addition to the beach, the lighthouse is the park's star attraction. The oldest lighthouse along Puget Sound, it has been in operation since its completion in 1879.