A perfectly preserved 19th-century company town on the bluffs at the north tip of the Kitsap Peninsula, looking across Hood Canal toward the Olympic Mountains. The mill is gone but the white New England houses, the Victorian church and the company store all remain in use — now as galleries, antique shops, a sea-and-shell museum, and one of the prettiest small-town coffee stops on the peninsula.
The whole place takes an hour to walk, less if you do not stop. The General Store sells decent sandwiches and ice cream; the second floor has a small but oddly enthralling shell museum, with one of the largest private shell collections in the world. Port Gamble is on the way to or from the Kingston ferry and to the Olympic Peninsula, which makes it an easy add-on rather than a destination.