ANACORTES, a city and a port of entry in Skagit county, Wash., U.S.A., occupying the upper end of Fidalgo island, about 2om. S. by W. of Bellingham in a direct line. It is connected with the mainland by the Great Northern railway and the San Juan extension of the Pacific highway ; with Vancouver island by an automobile ferry, which winds through enchanting scenery ; with the ports on Puget sound by regular steamboat service, and with all parts of the San Juan archipelago by smaller steamers. The population in 193o was 6,564.
Anacortes has important fishing industries, and is a distributing point for the logs of fir, cedar, hemlock and spruce, brought down from British Columbia ; and for the berries, the ginseng, golden seal, and other medicinal plants, the cabbage seed, and other agricultural products of the region. It had the first glass factory of the North-west. There are large exporting lumber-mills and box-factories. Box shooks are shipped to all parts of the world. Deception Pass State park is four miles away, on the south western end of Fidalgo island. The city was incorporated in 1889.