Today, it is mainly a stopping point for recreational access to the surrounding mountains, including skiing at nearby Stevens Pass.

[13] The Great Northern Depot, the former Skykomish station, was moved to a new city park in 2012 and today serves as a visitors center and history museum.

[8] Legal but ill-advised waste disposal practices, common during that era, resulted in the contamination of its soil, its groundwater, and the Skykomish River by oil and heavy metals.

The video class of the local school chose to document the oil under the town, winning the 2002 President’s Environmental Youth Award.

[16][17][18] BNSF (then BN) and the Washington State Department of Ecology began remediation discussions in the mid-1980s, and in 2006, agreed to a plan whereby the railroad would pay up to $50 million to clean up the area over a three-year period (completed in 2009).

This effort involved massive excavations—essentially removing the contaminated soil and replacing it with clean soil—and the rebuilding of a levee.

Twenty two of Skykomish's buildings — both homes and business — were temporarily moved during the cleanup process.

After the contaminated soil under them was removed, the buildings were moved back to their original locations on new foundations and utilities connections.

[19] The town was restored with modern conveniences such as sidewalks and street lights, but the historic character of Skykomish was maintained.

The greatest benefit of the cleanup to every resident and business in town was the installation of the new Waste Water Treatment system connected to every building.

Led by point guard John Best, the Skykomish Basketball team won the 1954 State B championship beating the highly favored 3A Bainbridge.

Skykomish has a Cfb (bordering on Dsb, Dfb, and Csb) climate, with warm, sunny summers and cold, snowy winters.As of the 2020 census, there were 161 people, 49 households in the town.

The town's residents mainly relied on dial-up service for internet access until the full rollout of DSL in the 2010s—far later than the rest of King County.

A $1.3 million project to add fiber-optic service to Skykomish was announced in 2021 by Ziply Fiber with funding from the state government.