Places to Explore In Washington Cascade Mountains and Valleys

Arlington

Adorable Arlington, as picturesque as early Americana can be, is surrounded by pastures, woods, and the rich farmlands of the Stillaguamish River plain. On sunny...

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Ashford

Adjacent to the Nisqually (Longmire) entrance to Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford draws around 2 million visitors every year. Long a transit route for local...

• 3 Restaurants
• 5 Hotels
• 2 Things To Do

Bellevue

• 2 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 4 Things To Do

Bellingham

The fishing port and college community of Bellingham has steadily transformed itself from a rough-and-tumble blue-collar town to the arts, retirement, and pleasure-boating capital of...

• 11 Restaurants
• 7 Hotels
• 17 Things To Do

Bow-Edison

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Bremerton

Nearly surrounded by water, and with one of the largest navy bases on the West Coast, Bremerton is a workaday city of about 39,000 with...

• 3 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 3 Things To Do

Camano Island

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Centralia

Centralia (sen-trail-ya) was founded by George Washington, a freed slave from Virginia, who faced serious discrimination in several states and territories before settling here in...

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• 2 Hotels
• 1 Things To Do

Edmonds

This charming, somewhat suburban small city just north of Seattle has a waterfront lined by more than a mile of boutiques and restaurants, seaside parks...

• 3 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 3 Things To Do

Everett

Everett is best known for the Boeing Aircraft plant and for having the second-largest Puget Sound port (after Seattle). The naval station here is home...

• 4 Restaurants
• 3 Hotels
• 9 Things To Do

Ferndale

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Gig Harbor

One of the prettiest and most accessible waterfront communities on Puget Sound, Gig Harbor has a neat, circular bay dotted with sailboats and fronted by...

• 2 Restaurants
• 3 Hotels
• 4 Things To Do

Glacier and Mt. Baker

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• 1 Things To Do

La Conner

Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson, Mark Tobey, and other painters set up shop in La Conner in the 1940s, and the village on the...

• 5 Restaurants
• 5 Hotels
• 4 Things To Do

Longview

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Lynden

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Mossyrock

Another great outdoors destination, with opportunities for camping, fishing and boating in abundance, Mossyrock is a charming small town with two lakefront parks. The large...

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Mount Vernon

This attractive riverfront town, the county seat of Skagit County and founded in 1871, is surrounded by dairy pastures, vegetable fields, and bulb farms—the town...

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• 1 Things To Do

North Bend

This small town gets its name from a bend in the Snoqualmie River, which here turns toward Canada. The gorgeous surrounding scenery is dominated by...

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• 1 Things To Do

Olympia

Olympia has been the capital of Washington since 1853, the beginning of city and state. It is small (population 48,000) for the capital city of...

• 7 Restaurants
• 2 Hotels
• 11 Things To Do

Packwood

Its location, between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, makes this delightful mountain village on U.S. 12 an attractive destination for those who plan to...

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• 2 Hotels
• 0 Things To Do

Port Gamble

Residents from the opposite side of America founded Port Gamble around a sawmill in 1853; hence its New England–style architecture mimicking founder Captain William Talbot's...

• 1 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 2 Things To Do

Poulsbo

Velkommen til Poulsbo (pauls-bo), a charming village on lovely Liberty Bay. Soon after it was settled by Norwegians in the 1880s, shops and bakeries sprang...

• 2 Restaurants
• 2 Hotels
• 2 Things To Do

Puyallup

Set before the towering forests and snowfields of Mt. Rainier is Puyallup (pyoo-al-lup), one of western Washington's oldest towns. The Puyallup Fair attracts all of...

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Renton

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Snohomish

Snohomish arose in 1859 in typical Northwest fashion: around a shack in the woods. When E.C. Ferguson transported his Steilacoom mansion here, through the sound...

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Snoqualmie

Although it's just a 30-mile drive from downtown Seattle, much of the densely wooded town of Snoqualmie (sno-qual-mie) feels as though it could be hours...

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• 3 Hotels
• 4 Things To Do

Tacoma

After decades of decline, Tacoma has been steadily undergoing a renaissance in recent years, with development around the waterfront and in other parts of downtown...

• 15 Restaurants
• 8 Hotels
• 24 Things To Do

Woodinville

• 2 Restaurants
• 0 Hotels
• 5 Things To Do