Browns Point Lighthouse Park

This is a great place to spend a sunny afternoon or even noom for picnic
The scenery is beautiful, great pictures opportunity, lots of people with dogs, great place to play freezbe, there is also lots of lose tree branches, and sea glass too.
The lighthouse is small, but it has its little history. There is a house museum but is currently closed, I believe ot opens again in April.

Beautiful place to come and watch the sunset over the Puget Sound. The beach is clean and the park is well maintained. The lighthouse keeper is also very kind. Definitely my favorite part of Tacoma.

Neat to see a lighthouse. However, don’t use the bathrooms. They only provide a honey bucket. No running water for hand washing. There isn’t much for children to do. The beach here is pretty rocky. 4 stars for the view though. If you want a nice view come here.

I loved this little beach! There’s a small hidden parking lot with maybe 6 – 8 stalls down a little residential street. There are a couple picnic tables on the grass slope that leads down to the pebbled beach. The lighthouse itself is a 1920’s art deco style that is surrounded by a barbed wire fence and seems out of place in the PNW. The cute cottage on the grounds is a vacation rental. A nice place to spend a few hours on a sunny day!

I didn’t know this side of Tacoma existed. It is tucked away in Browns Point. The views of downtown Tacoma to Point Defiance are exceptional. Wonderful place to take pictures and picnics. The rock beach wasn’t as bad as I anticipated.
Parking could be challenging if it is crowded.

Such a great park to take the kids, fly kites, take the dog, go to the beach, etc! Such fun things to do and (The Best Part)… Walking distance from home.

I was trying to venture out and see more of local parks in my area and I decided to take a quick trip to Browns Point. It’s not a very big park by any means and there are only about 6 parking spaces. The adjacent lot is a private lot so your can’t park over there. Even though the park is somewhat small, you can walk along the coastline which makes it seem bigger.
I did like that this park was not busy and even though the lighthouse is enclosed in a fence with barbed wire on it with video surveillance, you can still get a good view of a little piece of Tacoma history. The light house doesn’t appear to be working anymore and has long since been retired. The lighthouse keeper’s house nearby is still open to the public. In fact, some of the historical society ladies were there pruning and gardening and keeping the place up while I was there. It is available to be rented as well.
The view here is amazing though and sooo quiet and peaceful. It’s a perfect place to relax.
There are doggie doo bags & a little bit of space for your dogs to roam, so bring your dogs. Also there is signage that seals and sea lions may sometimes grace you with their presence on the coast, so be sure and give them the space they need and don’t harass them.
The only «service» on site is a single port-​a-​potty, so do your doo before you come if you don’t fancy poppin a poo in the Honey Bucket.

Ah! Summer! I feel like I am off to a good start by hitting parks, national monuments and botanical gardens!
Despite living in Tacoma I have never been to Brown’s Point until recently. This section of Tacoma seems isolated from the rest of the city and feels like it is more Federal Way than the city south of here.
Arguably this is probably the best park in this area. There are a couple of state parks nearby but there is not anything worth seeing there really.
Brown’s Point has a lighthouse. It does not look like a typical Washington lighthouse at all but is more of a little nub of a building. There are some interesting buildings on the grounds besides the lighthouse. There is an old boathouse, a cottage house and a bell house. All three of these buildings are a small museum. I am not sure what the hours they are open here since we just kind of happened to show up. There is no entrance fee to go into these buildings but there is a suggested donation. The cottage house is restored nicely with lots of household items that takes you back to the «olden» days. The bell house is cool. You can ring the bell which is huge and quite loud. The boathouse is also fun to see and there is an old boat ramp that goes to Puget Sound.
There are beaches here too. On the side of the boathouse the beach is pretty rocky but if you go to the other end towards the south or southeast there is a nice pebbly beach there.
Brown’s Point is not exactly a good park to stay fit at. There are no bike trails and not really a good place to run since it is such a small park. You could potentially run down the beach towards Tacoma but all that is most likely private property. So with that in mind the park is best suited to fishing, picnics, looking at the buildings and just chilling out.
Parking is a little scarce here, especially if there is a special event going on at the restaurant or club that is next door to the park.

The park features an old victorian home that’s preserved as a museum. It’s open on Saturdays, not sure if there is a fee or not, I have yet to check it out.
It’s adorable and well kept with a flourishing garden of flowers adorning it.
The light house is on the edge of land close to the water. It’s surrounded by a fence and barbed wire to keep vandals off. Kind of unsightly, it was built in the late 1920’s so it has the plain «art deco» shape. It’s been boarded up and reprinted numerous times.
The park has a lot of open grass. A good place to sun bathe in the summer, there is minimal shade.
The view of tacoma is excellent. You can see all of Ruston way.
The parking is bad, especially for fishing season. Finding the park is tricky, too. It feels like winding down alley ways and residential driveways trying to park.

We live in northeast Tacoma and Browns Point is the closest park to where we live. Definitely a very scenic location for a park right on the water with views of Tacoma across the bay and Vashon Island. The only downside is the electric gate that blocks the entrance to the general parking lot area… everytime I pass by it’s usually closed and seems like only those who have access to opening it are part of the Browns Point Improvement Clubhouse or the lighthouse. Usually I will park my car the playfield and then walk my dog to the park where there is at least a pedestrian opening. The park is not super crowded at all and one weekday morning I found out a group of local residents bring their dogs out there to play. I observed their dogs were off leash and although not technically I think it’s not allowed, I don’t believe that rule is enforced as they said they have been doing it for years. Although I have a rambunctious puppy that I still am building up trust to be off-​leash, I did try letting him off as there was tons of green space in a relatively enclosed area… it is definitely a nice place for a dog to let out his energy BUT obviously it is not an official off leash area with several outlets out of the park so BEWARE and at least watch where your dog is going. Once I got him back on leash, the stroll around the edge/​perimeter was quite nice. The lighthouse, I’m sure very historical and a landmark of this area is pretty «eh» and looks more like a Cold War remnant, but the lighthouse keeper’s home itself is very old style quaint. It really is a nice escape for you and your dog.