Beginner Mushroom Foraging Tour near Seattle

Explore wild mushrooms on a guided outing designed for first-time foragers, with a focus on what's edible rather than scientific Latin names. Your guide scouts the area in advance, but this is an educational trip first: finding edible mushrooms is not guaranteed.

• Learn to distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous varieties and tricky lookalikes
• Discover techniques for finding, collecting, cleaning, and storing mushrooms
• Learn how to cook familiar and lesser-known edible mushrooms
• Let your guide capture photos of your foraging discoveries

What's Included

• Basket and mushroom knife
• Nitrile gloves, reference book, and hand warmers
• Mushroom to take home

Important details

• All ages welcome.
• Parking inside the park requires a Discover Pass, available for $11.50 at the pay machine and not included in the listed price. Free parking is available along the main road outside the entrance.
• Complete a waiver and release for each person in your party before the experience.
• Arrive 10–15 minutes early to park, find the group, and use the bathroom.