Knocks north of Welcome along North Fork of Nooksack River witnessed in Whatcom County, Washington

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My husbands parents, uncle and and three others bought a piece of river property in 1972. It has been used continuously since then, mostly by Uncle. We use it once in a while as does my SIL and her family and one other family's grandkids. Although the road is right next to the property, the property sits about 30' below it in river bottom. There is a creek at the north end of the property, about 200 feet from where our rig was parked. That creek runs out to another creek that is part of the river and creates an island that used to be part of the property. It is very secluded. The summer of 2018, my sister-in-law and her (adult) kids had been camping out at the property on several occasions, cleaning out trees and undergrowth, as they had bought trailers and needed to do a bit of landscaping to get their rigs in there. My husband had a load of crushed gravel taken out there in 2009 that we used to put in the fire pit area and bolster the ground as we had a trailer at the time and nee...