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Cutts Island State Park is a public recreation area park comprising the entirety of Cutts Island in
Carr Inlet Carr Inlet, in southern Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington, is an arm of water between Key Peninsula and Gig Harbor Peninsula. Its southern end is connected to the southern basin of Puget Sound. Northward, it separates McNeil Island and F ...
in Pierce County,
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. The island is a clay butte with a stand of trees and a teardrop-shaped beach at low tide. It sits one half-mile offshore from Kopachuck State Park and is accessible only by water and occasionally by sandbar at extremely low tide. Eight mooring buoys are available for boaters. Park activities include beachcombing and scuba diving. ;Island names Cutts Island has also been known as "Crow Island," after the crows found in abundance on the island in 1792 by explorer
Peter Puget Peter Puget (1765 – 31 October 1822) was an officer in the Royal Navy, best known for his exploration of Puget Sound. Midshipman Puget Puget's ancestors had fled France for Britain during Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots. His father, ...
, and "Scotts Island," after Thomas Scott, quartermaster of the 1841 Wilkes expedition. The belief that the island served as a burial ground for Native American tribes who placed their dead in canoes in the forks of trees gave birth to the name "Deadman's Island." The origin of the name "Cutts Island" is unknown.


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Cutts Island State Park
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Cutts Island State Park Map
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission {{authority control State parks of Washington (state) Parks in Pierce County, Washington Protected areas established in 1969 1969 establishments in Washington (state) Islands of Pierce County, Washington Uninhabited islands of Washington (state)