Sylvan Beach, Washington

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Sylvan Beach, is a community on the west side of Vashon Island on Colvos Passage. It is known as one of Vashon's walk-in communities, since most of the homes can only be reached by walking in from the road on the community's boardwalk. Supplies and goods are conveyed to the homes using wheelbarrows.

[edit] Navigational Hazard

Sylvan Beach is noted on navigational charts probably because of the old pilings which extend 100 yards out into Colvos Passage. The piles are all that remains of a dock that served the Virginia V, the passager-only, mosquito fleet, steamship ferry, that ran daily from Tacoma to Seattle.