page_title: Blue Hills (Washington)
section_title: Recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Blue Hills (Washington) / Recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Girl biking in Banner Forest, Kitsap County Washington
context_page_description: The Blue Hills just west of Bremerton, Washington, also called the Bremerton Hills, Bald Hills, and Wildcat Hills, consist of Gold Mountain, Green Mountain, and several informally named hills. Reaching an elevation of 1761 feet, a thousand feet above the glacial till that fills the Puget Lowland, they form a prominent landmark visible around the region. They are formed of uplifted blocks of marine basalts, the steep-walled canyons between the various summits being the fissures between the blocks. In addition to Gold Mountain and Green Mountain are several other prominent peaks unofficially named according to their elevation:
  Kitsap Lookout, el. 1,360 feet
  Peak 1330,
  Peak 1291.
  Peak 730.
  The name "Blue Hills" is said to come from the green trees appearing blue at a distance due to atmospheric optics.
context_section_description: A number of developed and undeveloped areas for recreation exist in and near the Blue Hills. The largest that is open to the public is Green Mountain State Forest, a multi-use, over 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) state forest containing Green Mountain itself and owned by Washington State Department of Natural Resources. The state forest allows camping, off-road vehicles, horseback riding, and hiking. The Bremerton watershed contains the eastern half of Gold Mountain with an associated restricted protective buffer, and is somewhat larger than the state forest. Entry to the watershed by the general public is restricted, but Gold Mountain Golf Course was built on city watershed property on the south side of the hills. Together the watershed and Green Mountain State Forest represent over half of Kitsap County's open space.
  The Mountaineers maintain an outdoor theatre, Kitsap Forest Theater, in their 386-acre (156 ha) Rhododendron Preserve on the north side of the hills.
  There is one 386-acre (156 ha) former shooting range, Camp Wesley Harris, owned by the U.S. Navy, and the private Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club.
  Other facilities include county and city parks, as listed below.
  City of Bremerton
  Gold Mountain Golf Course
  Newberry Hill Heritage Park
  Otto Jarstad Park
  Pendergast Regional Park
  Kitsap County
  Wildcat Lake Park
  Central Kitsap Greenways
  Navy Yard City Open Space
caption: Girl bicycling on forest trails a few miles from Green Mountain
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