It is the center for crab fishing and is a summer resort. Between Tokeland and Raymond, the tour hugs the shoreline of Willapa Bay. This portion of the highway was not completed until 1962.
Tokeland
Points of Interest 
Willapa Bay Boathouse
An executive order in September of 1854 established the Willapa Bay Lighthouse Reservation at North Cove, where the Willapa Bay Life Boat Station was constructed in 1885 through 1890. By the 1920’s, channel realignment and extensive shoaling caused the boat launchway rails to be continually covered with drifting sand to depths of 3-4 feet. In 1929 a new boathouse and launchway were constructed 4 miles away at Toke Point, closer to the mouth of Willapa Bay and its hazardous off shore bar. The remainder of the station was moved to Tokeland during the mid-1950’s and the original lifeboat station was disposed of in 1956. By 1938 boat equipment consisted of one motor lifeboat, one 38′ picket boat, one motor surfboat, one pulling surfboat and one dory. At least one additional motor lifeboat was assigned, shortly thereafter. The Station’s primary lifesaving effort concentrated in the area around the mouth of Willapa Bay where commercial and sport fishing boats were frequently caught in heavy surf. By the early 1970’s the Coast Guard rescue vessels were moored at the nearby County marina; the boathouse and launchway were only used for an occasional haulout for maintenance and repairs. The boathouse was eventually converted into a Coast Guard recreation facility just prior to Station closure in 1979.
Tokeland Hotel
Just as they did 100 years ago, visitors can lodge and dine at the historic Tokeland Hotel. The National Register-listed hotel itself embodies the colorful history of “Toke’s Point” and affords visitors a glimpse at life when the highways were all traveled in a boat. The Tokeland Hotel is significant historically as one of the oldest resort hotels in the state of Washington. The founders of the hotel were Elizabeth Brown Kindred and William Stingly Kindred, both from pioneer families of the Northwest. Elizabeth Brown was born in 1862 at Bruceport to George and Charlotte Brown. Her father had settled in 1858 on Toke Point which was then rich in oysters and inhabited only by natives of the Willapa tribe. One of their number, Chief Toke, gave the area its name. Lizzie, as she was always known, grew up with the young people of this tribe as her only childhood companions. Her interest in them and their affection for her contributed to the priceless native basket and artifact collection which she displayed at the hotel until her death in 1931. The Tokeland Hotel is the oldest building on the Point and is the only remaining remnant from the early resort era on Willapa Bay. The majority of the present furnishings date from the early days of the hotel, and there have been no major structural changes since the Kindred family’s period of ownership.
Points of Interest
Willapa Bay Boathouse
An executive order in September of 1854 established the Willapa Bay Lighthouse Reservation at North Cove, where the Willapa Bay Life Boat Station was constructed in 1885 through 1890. By the 1920’s, channel realignment and extensive shoaling caused the boat launchway rails to be continually covered with drifting sand to depths of 3-4 feet. In 1929 a new boathouse and launchway were constructed 4 miles away at Toke Point, closer to the mouth of Willapa Bay and its hazardous off shore bar. The remainder of the station was moved to Tokeland during the mid-1950’s and the original lifeboat station was disposed of in 1956. By 1938 boat equipment consisted of one motor lifeboat, one 38′ picket boat, one motor surfboat, one pulling surfboat and one dory. At least one additional motor lifeboat was assigned, shortly thereafter. The Station’s primary lifesaving effort concentrated in the area around the mouth of Willapa Bay where commercial and sport fishing boats were frequently caught in heavy surf. By the early 1970’s the Coast Guard rescue vessels were moored at the nearby County marina; the boathouse and launchway were only used for an occasional haulout for maintenance and repairs. The boathouse was eventually converted into a Coast Guard recreation facility just prior to Station closure in 1979.
Tokeland Hotel
Just as they did 100 years ago, visitors can lodge and dine at the historic Tokeland Hotel. The National Register-listed hotel itself embodies the colorful history of “Toke’s Point” and affords visitors a glimpse at life when the highways were all traveled in a boat. The Tokeland Hotel is significant historically as one of the oldest resort hotels in the state of Washington. The founders of the hotel were Elizabeth Brown Kindred and William Stingly Kindred, both from pioneer families of the Northwest. Elizabeth Brown was born in 1862 at Bruceport to George and Charlotte Brown. Her father had settled in 1858 on Toke Point which was then rich in oysters and inhabited only by natives of the Willapa tribe. One of their number, Chief Toke, gave the area its name. Lizzie, as she was always known, grew up with the young people of this tribe as her only childhood companions. Her interest in them and their affection for her contributed to the priceless native basket and artifact collection which she displayed at the hotel until her death in 1931. The Tokeland Hotel is the oldest building on the Point and is the only remaining remnant from the early resort era on Willapa Bay. The majority of the present furnishings date from the early days of the hotel, and there have been no major structural changes since the Kindred family’s period of ownership.
