Marty Bluewater has lifetime use of his inholding cabin on the island's southern bluffs.

Boat trips from nearby Port Townsend, Washington provide ecotourism visits for viewing wildlife from the adjacent waters.

Visitors may view the island by boat; a 200-yard off-shore buffer is enforced to ensure adult birds are not flushed from their nests.

The waters surrounding the North Olympic Peninsula support five additional refuges: Flattery Rocks, Quillayute Needles, Copalis, Dungeness, and San Juan Islands.

Protection Island is managed as part of the Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex.