Acquired
The park was acquired in two parcels; the first in 1959 and the second in 1964, for a total cost of $12,197.50.

Historical Background
The Methow Valley was first opened to the white man by fur trappers and traders in the early 1800s and later became an access route into the large mining region in the upper Skagit drainage. The town of Winthrop was founded in 1894 by Boston-bred and Harvard-educated Guy Waring as a trading post handling supplies needed by the mining operations as well a those for the homesteaders who were gradually moving into the area. Much of the acreage now included in the park was settled by just such homesteaders who became the mainstay of valley life when the mining boom came to an end in the early 1900s.

Facilities
30 utility sites and 53 standard sites; group camp with six tent sites, pit toilet, solar pit toilet, water, and parking facilities; 2 primitive sites w/o vehicle access; comfort station, 30 picnic sites, boat launch, 1.5 miles of roadway, contact station, 2 residences, park shop, storage building, irrigation pumphouse, bathhouse, trailer dump, boat handling floats.

Activities
Fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, picnicking, camping, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling.