Talk:Deception Pass State Park

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Deception Pass State Park is currently a Geography good article nominee. Nominated by Dclemens1971 (talk) at 20:11, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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Short description: Popular state park in Washington, United States

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

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Deception Pass State Park

... that in 2021, a Washington state park (pictured) drew more visitors than Yosemite National Park?

Source: "Last year, almost 3.8 million people visited Deception Pass, and 1.2 million cars entered the park. According to Sherrye Wyatt, public relations manager at Whidbey and Camano Islands Tourism, Deception Pass kept up with some of the most popular destinations in the country last year; in 2021, 4.53 million went to the Grand Canyon, 3.29 million visited Yosemite and 2.72 million traveled to Olympic National Park." Everett Herald (Extra source on Yosemite visitors if you need it)

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5x expanded by Dclemens1971 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 40 past nominations.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 01:31, 29 January 2026 (UTC).

Always glad to see your work, Dclemens, especially on a fascinating NRHP article. I'm a bit perplexed as to why all those historic districts are individually listed and can't imagine that they are worthy of individual articles. I am also a bit confused by what you mean that this article was a split. Which article did you initially split content from? Regardless, you've added enough content since 20:04 UTC 27 January 2026 to qualify as a 5x. QPQ has been started and a response from that nominator has been made. I love that hook and think that image is outstanding. The license seems to be good for a main page run. The article itself aligns with all other requirements. Exceptional job. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 15:59, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
- Pbritti I might have mistyped, but I split out content from Deception Pass on the park and then in the writing and sourcing of the new article the old content disappeared. Thanks for the kind words! And I have no idea why there are all these little districts but the redlinks were annoying me on the county NRHP listing pages (Island, Skagit), which was one reason I wanted to separate out the park page from the page on the pass itself. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:10, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
@Dclemens1971 and Pbritti: promoting, just note that the article has a few MOS:SANDWICH issues that can be fixed by moving the images under the infoboxes. HurricaneZeta^C 19:03, 30 January 2026 (UTC)