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Port Townsend brims with antiques stores, art galleries, clothing boutiques, consignment shops, vintage and New Age-y bookstores, and upscale maritime, kitchen, home design, and gift shops. Water and Washington Streets, which run parallel to the bay, are lined with storefronts. So are their block-long offshoots, cut off by the cliff that separates downtown from uptown. More stores are located uptown on Lawrence Street near an enclave of Victorian houses. To reach them, walk up the Terrace Steps behind Haller Fountain at Washington and Taylor streets. Along the way, plenty of pubs, coffeehouses, and eateries provide tired shoppers a place to revive and rest their feet.
With an array of upscale, seaside luxe-living essentials like soy candles (hand-poured on-site in small batches in scents like sailcloth, fog, moss, and water), this high-ceilinged, brick-walled home-design and gift boutique smells as good as it looks. Look for furniture fashioned from reclaimed wood, nautical-theme throw pillows, jewelry, seashells, and air plants in recycled-glass terrariums. There's a second location on Bainbridge Island.
This bustling market is a fun stop for picnic supplies or treats to bring home with you—think chocolates, local coffee, finishing salts, cheeses, charcuterie, artisan cider and beer, handmade sugar scrubs and soaps, toys, and flasks.
The more than 40 dealers at the two-story Port Townsend Antique Mall sell merchandise ranging from pricey Victorian collectors' items to cheap flea-market kitsch.
Port Townsend is proud of its long-standing farm-to-table ethic, and you can share in the region's bounty at this vibrant farmers market held Uptown on Saturdays April–mid-December. Approximately 70 vendors, including some 40 farmers, showcase their fare—fresh produce, flash-frozen salmon, artisan cheeses, ciders, prepared foods, and baked goods, along with crafts, flowers, and handmade soaps. A smaller market is held on Sundays at Chinacum Corner June–October.
Used and out-of-print books covering all fields—with an emphasis on nautical, regional history, and art titles—are arrayed from floor to ceiling in this jam-packed indie bookstore that also carries first editions and other rare finds.
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