Come on in, the water’s fine—for whitewater rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, inner tubing, water skiing, parasailing, surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing and swimming. Washington State offers aquatic adventurers an astounding variety of environments for water sports, including the Pacific coast, Puget Sound, the Columbia River Gorge (a world-famous windsurfing destination), whitewater rivers like the Sauk, the Skykomish and the White Salmon, and incomparably beautiful lakes like Lake Crescent and Ozette Lake on the Olympic Peninsula, Lake Chelan in eastern Washington and Banks Lake near the Grand Coulee Dam. Whether you like saltwater, freshwater, still water or whitewater, you’ll find it all here.
