Breazeale Interpretive Center and Aquarium

Fantastic experience: Great aquarium and exhibits. Free and kids really liked the touch tank and the tall aquarium with eels and giant sea stars. Just north of Bay View State Park.

Fantastic experience: Free! (We gave a nice donation) Awesome experience for the kids to see aquatic life close up and touch also. We were happy to learn that there is a beach access where the kids can get down and dirty, literally. Highly recommend for hands on fun (bring a change of clothes and shoes!)

Fantastic experience: Not big but lots to see and touch，my kids love it. There is an easy trail nearby, about 1 mile.

Fantastic experience: This place is awesome. The staff is great and they have a free Aquarium stocked full of fish and wildlife native to the Puget sound They Also have a few activities for kids.

Fantastic experience: This place is amazing!! The building is so cool and the touch tank.was so fun! We loved the walk to the beach. So peaceful and beautiful!

Fantastic experience: Went here a couple years ago, it’s fun for the whole family! Then take the trail to the waterfront. A great place to love on coastal nature.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic. Neat critters. Plenty of activities for young and adolescent children. Nice easy trails. Little bit of geocaching

Fantastic experience: Took dogs to walk around the trails.

Fantastic experience: This little aquarium and research center is doing such great work! Worth a visit at least a few times a year to learn what's on the up and up, and to see what's new! Show some support via their donation bin by the door, or book a class with their amazing education staff! Images: Mottled star ray with tube feet and Green urchin, Mottled star with Red and Purple urchin, and Rubescent octopus with Vancouver feather duster worm and Vermillion star! Be sure to check if they have Grunt sculpins, Wolf eels and Painted greenling!

Fantastic experience: Always such a fun place to go for the kids

Fantastic experience: Awesome place, definitley going back. Lots of info about animals. Staff is very friendly. They have some touch pools, although its a pretty small aquarium, there is an activity/book reading area. Some puppets and books, flash cards and games.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing center. Free or by donation and they deserve the donations. Very educational experience. We are from Ontario and found this spot on our journey through the states. There’s a lot of love poured into this place. Their kid room was all hand made activities that were super engaging and inspiring. I’d highly recommend visiting.

Fantastic experience: Thank you so much for having our group for a field trip. Extremely generous and attentive staff that turned even the most reluctant students eager to learn more about marine biology and conservation.

Positive experience: Fun afternoon outing with the kids. Great center with lots of good educational information on the area.

Fantastic experience: I had no idea this place was here, but it's definitely worth a visit! Their resident octopus was very active and grumpy, and we got to see the wolf eels being fed. Very knowledgeable and friendly staff. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Great place to bring the family to learn about our local aquatic environment. You can easily spend an hour or two checking out the displays and on nicer days, enjoy a walk in the woods or down to the shore.

Fantastic experience: This is a hidden gem in Skagit County. It's much less busy than most of the other parks with beach access.

Fantastic experience: A nice place for adults and kids to get educated about some sea life and birds. Very kid friendly. And weather permitting after. You can walk down to the beach.

Fantastic experience: Amazing... not like any aquarium... eye level tanks and the sealife inside is very happy... very wonderful for any age.

Fantastic experience: Totally exceeded my expectations. Really nice for kids with lots of hands on displays and the ability to touch sea creatures. All free! Totally would come back.

Fantastic experience: What a cool place. The volunteer at the touch tanks was so knowledgeable and willing to answer endless questions. We could have stared into the tanks for hours. Donations are accepted, but no admission required. Super cool and we will come back!

Fantastic experience: Stopped by while staying at Bayview State Park and it was a lot of fun. I was told by the wonderful fellow manning the touch-tanks that Saturday was the exciting day and it did not disappoint. We got to see them feed the Wolf Eels and Hank the octopus came out of his beer bottle home and gave us a wonderful display of his color changing abilities. There were starfish, urchin and anemones to touch and displays that were entertaining enough, the kids didn't even realize they were learning something. A must see if you're in the area.

Fantastic experience: It was easy to move around for my 87 year old mother.

Fantastic experience: Our naturalist group from the Seattle Mountaineers toured the indoor exhibits. Very well displayed exhibits and three of the staff where amazing. They expained much of the sea life on display and answered all our questions. Wonderful Interpretive center and well informed friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Adjusted business hours 10am to 4pm, Wednesday to Saturday. Nice location!

Fantastic experience: The staff were so enthusiastic and knowledgeable, had a great time, and loved the touch tanks!

Fantastic experience: Cool place to visit. Huge trail system for walking and biking. Going back this summer to explore more.

Fantastic experience: This place is great! Interactive. Aquarium where you can touch certain sea life. Hiking trails and super friendly people who work there

Fantastic experience: Wonderful center with tons of information and a great local aquarium. I did not use the touch-tank but it looks like a blast for the kiddos and young at heart. Decent amount of parking and the Upland trail was lovely.

Fantastic experience: Made a quick stop at the Padilla Bay Center and had a great learning experience. If have some 30 minutes to spare and want to learn learn about estuary of the PNW and the different species that inhabit, I would recommend this spot.

Fantastic experience: This is a beautiful area to take a little Trek from the center, go on the trail that leads under the roadway to a neat spiral staircase to the beach. When the center reopens it's an awesome place to visit for all family members and all ages. Great displays and very informative regarding the local estuary and surrounds. Be sure to walk or bike along the trail that hugs the bay. Bring your puppers, too! Don't forget to head a few minutes south of here and stop at Snow Goose Produce to get an immodest ice cream cone on a homemade waffle cone and then browse through all the local goods from Washington and Oregon.

Fantastic experience: Awesome job. I went with my granddaughters class, for a field trip. It was a interesting and informative about animals and life cycle in the area. Thanks

Positive experience: This place is AMAZING. The views are breathtaking.

Fantastic experience: Small but wonderfully informative and beautiful exhibits with some animals rarely spotted on local beaches like sunflower stars and an octopus named Ocho.

Fantastic experience: I love everything about this place. I wish we -- I wish the world -- had more of these kinds of places. Bring tactile learners here. Bring budding ecologists. Bring animal lovers. Bring kids. Bring a partner. Come see this place for yourself, and bring someone, anyone -- and help keep this place around for future generations to enjoy the way we are blessed to be able to. Thanks for having me.

Positive experience: Clean and fun. Interesting things for all ages to see

Fantastic experience: Small museum, but chock full of interesting and interactive exhibits. 3 aquaria with an incredible display of local fish, crustaceans and invertebrates. And free as well!

Fantastic experience: This is such a wonderful museum. The interactive displays are fun for all ages, and there's a buh of games in the kids area. Afterward, you can do the loop trail at the museum or go down to the beach. Plus, everything is free :)

Fantastic experience: Fun for the kids

Fantastic experience: Small but complete, interactive interpretive exhibits of unique plants and creatures in waters of Padilla Bay, plenty for kids too.

Positive experience: Great places to take the kids. The fort is open to the public and it had a really cool beach

Fantastic experience: Very cool naturalist museum. They also have a pathway tunnel under the road with a viewing platform of the bay and info about local animals. Such a neat addition!

Fantastic experience: Yesterday I visited the Padilla Bay Breazeale Interpretive Center where they had a marvelous assortment of various sea water fish, starfish, shrimp, octopus and various other Aquatic wildlife. Easy to see from road with easy in and out. Ample parking for cars and bus's. Very friendly and knowledgeable staff.

Positive experience: This is an excellent place to collect purple clam shells! I’m from Saint Louis and I visited Washington for a marine biology unit. The guide there is so helpful and really kind! There are also a lot of cool rocks to collect. Even in the dead of winter it’s still a place with interesting things