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Roche Harbor Washington Map

Explore Roche Harbor, Washington, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Roche Harbor, Washington

How to Use This Roche Harbor, Washington Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Roche Harbor, Washington. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Washington or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Roche Harbor.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Roche Harbor
State	Washington (WA)
County	San Juan County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	48.607398
Longitude	-123.130616
Population	662
Density	63.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	98250
Area Code	206, 253
County Seat	Friday Harbor
School District	San Juan Island School District

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About Roche Harbor, Washington

Roche Harbor is a locality in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It is a small community with a population of 662. The population density is 63.6 people per km². Roche Harbor is located at 48.6074°N, 123.1306°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 98250.

Roche Harbor occupies a sheltered crescent of land where the terrestrial edge of the archipelago dissolves into the salt-washed expanse of Puget Sound. It lies 5.2 miles northwest of San Juan, WA (from San Juan, WA: bearing 321°T), and is situated 8.0 miles northwest of Friday Harbor. Beyond the immediate docks, the landscape rises in gentle, forest-mantled slopes that catch the long, slanted light of late afternoon, casting the surrounding waters in shades of bruised plum and hammered silver. To the west, Pearl Island breaks the horizon line, a silent sentinel standing amidst the rhythmic pulse of the tides. Far off to the south, the jagged, snow-dusted silhouettes of the Olympic Mountains emerge from the maritime mist, anchoring the distant sky while Roche Harbor itself remains cradled in the quiet, saline air of the northern islands.

Historical echoes of lime production persist in the weathered brick kilns that once fueled the local economy, though the hum of industry has long since yielded to the seasonal cadence of maritime leisure. Life in Roche Harbor moves in alignment with the shifting currents and the stewardship of the San Juan County/Cypress Island Marine Biological Preserve, which envelops the shoreline in a protective embrace of ecological rigor. Residents and visitors alike navigate the interior geography with an awareness of the deeper, wilder island interior, where the stillness of Roche Harbor Lake provides a freshwater counterpoint to the restless sea. Even as the modern world arrives by boat, the character of Roche Harbor remains defined by this singular intersection of industrial heritage and the enduring, unhurried wildness of the Pacific Northwest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

San Juan Islands National Monument (National Monument) — locality lies within · 432k acres
San Juan County/Cypress Island Marine Biological Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — locality lies within
San Juan Island National Historical Park (Marine Protected Area) — 1.0 mi, 202° S
John S. McMillan Memorial Mausoleum (Attraction) — 1.0 mi, 305° NW
Reuben Tarte Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 077° E
San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.7 mi, 308° NW · 1,368 acres
San Juan Islands Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 1.7 mi, 308° NW · 379 acres
Historic Blockhouse (Attraction) — 1.7 mi, 212° SW
Posey Island (State Park) — 1.8 mi, 294° NW
Krystal Acres Alpaca Farm (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 194° S
Frozen Wind (Public Artwork) — 3.2 mi, 136° SE
Gull Rock Voluntary No-take Bottom Fish Recovery Area (Local Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 029° NE
Kellett Bluff Voluntary No-take Bottom Fish Recovery Area (Local Resource Management Area) — 3.4 mi, 253° W
Jones Island (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 078° E
Hidden Hollow (Theatre) — 4.2 mi, 346° N
Friday Harbor Watershed (Local Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 180° S
Bird Blind (Viewpoint) — 5.9 mi, 186° S
Stuart Island Teacherage Museum (Museum) — 6.2 mi, 322° NW
Schooners North (Attraction) — 7.2 mi, 133° SE
World War I Memorial (Monument) — 7.3 mi, 133° SE
Palace Theatre (Cinema) — 7.3 mi, 134° SE
Harbor Song Art Gallery (Gallery) — 7.3 mi, 134° SE
False Bay Marine Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 8.8 mi, 162° S
The Grove (Theatre) — 11.0 mi, 062° NE
Orcas WILD (Museum) — 12.0 mi, 059° NE
Moran Mansion Museum (Museum) — 12.0 mi, 078° E
Cattle Point Natural Resources Conservation Area (Nature Reserve) — 12.7 mi, 145° SE
Orcas Island Artworks (Gallery) — 13.5 mi, 085° E
Ayer Pond Site (Historic Ruins) — 14.1 mi, 089° E
Olympic National Park (National Park) — 37.5 mi, 201° S · 1.8M acres

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