Re-opening celebration set for Lyons Ferry State Park

Lyons Ferry State Park will host a grand re-opening celebration June 5 to mark the return of the state park after 13 years. The celebration will be 155 years to the day after Lyons Ferry was first operated. The ferry ceased operation in 1968.

The park closed in 2002 amid budget constraints that could not keep the park in operation, though it has been operated by the Port of Columbia since then as the Lyons Ferry Park and Lyons Ferry Marina. Many other state parks were also closed at the time.

An article on parks.wa.gov states the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and the U.S. Ar...