Skyline, Anacortes: The Neighborhood Built Around a Marina

In my Anacortes neighborhoods guide I wrote that Skyline runs from mid-century ranches on view lots to newer construction, and that still holds. My own sales here tell the honest version. I represented the seller of a 1977 home on Doon Way, and buyers of a 1977 home on Cay Way, a 1980 home on Rosario Way, and a 1991 home on Bryce Drive in Skyline No. 10. The Cay Way home has Flounder Bay frontage with its own tidelands. The Doon Way, Rosario Way, and Bryce Drive lots, in the county's own words, carry no view of value. Same neighborhood, four different homes, four very different prices. That is why I price a Skyline home on what it actually looks at, never on the name.

Where the views are, the county says so on the record. Its notes read "view of marina, Burrows Bay and Burrows Pass" on the upper blocks of Kingsway and Glasgow Way, "view of Burrows Bay" on the upper end of Sugarloaf Street, and "no view of value" on the lower streets near the bay. The lots I have sold ran 0.23 to 0.37 acre. What I have learned here: the view and the moorage story carry more of the price than the square footage does.

Skyline is an association neighborhood. Skyline Beach Club, Inc. is the Washington corporation that records the covenants division by division, and it runs day to day as the Skyline Property Owners Association, self-managed by a volunteer board out of the clubhouse at 6041 Sands Way. Ownership brings the parks: Tugboat Park with a walking trail and a sliver of sandy beach, Clubhouse Park with the basketball and tennis and pickleball courts, Cabana Park at the end of Cabana Lane with a beach, picnic tables, three fire pits, and three RV hookup spaces, plus Hill Park and Yorkshire Park. The waterfront Cabana rents to owners for gatherings, and the association's architectural committee reviews plans with view preservation in mind. The covenants are recorded division by division, so I pull the right set, and the current dues, for the home in front of us.

Moorage comes three ways here. A bay-frontage lot with tidelands can carry its own dock or buoy, because the covenants leave moorage to the tideland owner within that lot's boundaries, with the dock design approved by the architectural committee. The Skyline Marine Center rents transient and long-term slips. And there are condominium moorage units at the marina that are bought and sold like real estate; I represented the buyers of one on Skyline Way in 2024. Which of the three a listing actually includes is the first thing I check.

The Skyline Marine Center at 2011 Skyline Way offers moorage, indoor and outdoor boat storage, a fuel dock, and haul-outs on a 50-ton Travelift. Washington Park is at the end of Sunset Avenue: 220 city-owned acres on the point, with a 2.3-mile loop road, the Sunset Beach boat launch, 68 campsites, and the car pullouts and Burrows Bay viewpoint out on Green Point. In my list of ten things to do in Anacortes, I put sunset from Skyline on it: drive up into the neighborhood around sunset and find a pullout with a western view.

The Anacortes School District serves the city, and it is a non-boundary district: the district itself assigns each elementary student to Fidalgo, Island View, or Mount Erie on class size, sibling placement, parent preference, and transportation, not on street address, and sends the assignment by email in the summer. Anacortes Middle School, Anacortes High School, and Cap Sante High School serve the whole city, so no address on this page comes with a guaranteed elementary school, and I do not pretend otherwise.