Dave Mackie Memorial County Park is a saltwater beach in Island County, Washington. Across 207 bacteria samples collected between 2021 and 2025 at nearby monitoring stations, it earns a Beach Safety Grade of A — Excellent.
About 0.5% of samples at Dave Mackie Memorial County Park exceeded the EPA Beach Action Value of 104 CFU/100 mL for Enterococcus — the threshold at which water managers typically post a swimming advisory. In practice that means the safe-swimming limit was almost never crossed here over the monitored period. Bacteria samples almost never exceed the safe-swimming threshold.
Dave Mackie Memorial County Park was not under a swimming advisory in the most recent EPA snapshot. Conditions can change quickly after heavy rain or high runoff, so it's still worth checking the current advisory the day you go.