4/30/2026

This launch has been "gate locked closed" for months now. Even the "shitter" has been taken away.

I don't think this will be opened "ever again, as a boat launch". This creates a major problem for access to this part of the Chehalis River.

Friends Landing is the closest launch, long run from Cosie, Fuller could be used but will fill fast AND very early. I've been there when the lot is jammed, and parking on both sides of the road has rigs parked there. This area of the Chehalis is a Jet boat and drift boat running area, NOT SAYING that prop boats can't fish that area BUT LOW WATER can be tough on propellors. It can be tough on JET Boats, trying to run areas at low tide water.

Area around "water intakes" can be bad at low water parts of the tide. MANY jet boats, over the years, have run the river at mid to high tide then try to run back to Fuller or Monty launch and "filled pump with gravel or sand, or actually put boat on a gravel and have to wait for incomming tide to float the boat off. ME, only 1 time, in 50 years of running that area, had to wait 5 hours to get enough water to run my boat, grrrrrrrr

I know this is way early but time goes by quickly!!!!

One last thing on Monty boat launch, launch looks ok but not much parking......maybe the area could still be used to "flush out motors from fishing salt water', many have done that for years...