 click on the map or scroll down for alphabetical list of state destinations   TIME Pacific Standard Time CLOSEST STATES Idaho Oregon Montana REGION Pacific States |  Washington is a place to discover the energy of sophisticated cities, and all the culinary, cultural and arts experiences for which Seattle and Tacoma are famous; outdoors there is the high desert, the rain forest, alpine wilderness, the inland waters of Puget Sound, islands, mountains, rivers. Washington’s coast includes the spectacular Olympic Peninsula, with 57 miles of glorious beaches in Olympic National Park, including the longest stretch of wild coastline outside Alaska. This is a haven for hikers, beachcombers, backpackers, surf-fishers, sea kayakers, wildlife watchers, surfboarders, and families with children fascinated with beaches, tide pools and the crashing surf. Olympia and its surrounding area is home to the great domed state capitol building, to restaurants and museums, parks and theaters, boutiques and birds. It is full of amenities and entertainment. The Olympia area serves as a great base for visitors interested in taking day trips to the other wonders in Washington State. Seattle is unquestionably Washington's art, architecture and attraction center. There are the major attractions like Pike Market Place which presides over a nine-acre historic district in the heart of downtown Seattle and the Space Needle, but there are many other major draws like Seattle's waterfront which teems with trade, ferry boats, luxury cruise liners, sightseeing tour boats and myriad pleasure craft. Hotel rooms in the Seattle area number. Spokane offers the attractions and amenities associated with a big city, yet has the convenience of the road less traveled. You can visit Spokane's museums and art galleries, play at 76 lakes or at one of five ski resorts, golf at one of 33 courses, sip wine at one of Spokane's wineries, or raft whitewater on the Spokane River five minutes from downtown. Only 18 miles south of the Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport and a two-hour drive to Mount Rainier National Park, Tacoma is a centrally located “jumping off” point for the Olympic Peninsula and ocean beaches. But Tacoma also has many family and other attractions, a burgeoning “Museum District .... and some 5,000 rooms at premier business class hotels and quality motels and inns. WASHINGTON HOTELS ATTRACTIONS Anacortes Located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, Anacortes is a charming, historically rich waterfront community on Fidalgo Island, equally distanced between Seattle to the south and Vancouver, British Columbia to the north. ANACORTES HOTELS Bellevue The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of dolls as an art form. It houses more than 3,000 dolls. Snoqualmie Falls near Bellevue is 100 feet higher than Niagara. BELLEVUE HOTELS Bellingham The downtown area has a mixture of restaurants, art galleries and specialty shops. The cultural district includes the Whatcom Museum of History and Art.Originally built in 1892 as city hall, the museum's imposing brick building is the centerpiece of a four-building campus, including a children's museum. BELLINGHAM HOTELS Visitors bound for Alaska depart on the Alaska Marine Highway System ferries from the historic Fairhaven with its Victorian-era buildings. | Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut DC Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming | ||||||
| Blaine Home to the Peace Arch Monument which spans the U.S. - Canadian border in Peace Arch Park near the shore of Boundary Bay. Cascades Loop This 400-mile self-guided driving tour takes visitors from the waters of Puget Sound across the Cascade Mountains and into the high desert climate of the Columbia River Valley. Cashmere Aplets & Cotlets provides tours of its traditional candy-making process. Centralia and Chehalis Historic Centralia has over 350 antique dealers, brick streets and a renovated Railroad Depot and murals. Chehalis is home to the only Steam Train Dinner excursion on the west coast. CENTRALIA HOTELS and CHEHALIS HOTELS Chelan Located at Lake Chelan which is ranked as one of the most pristine waters in the United States. CHELAN HOTELS Columbia River Gorge Located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest along the borders of Oregon and Washington. The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center is at Stevenson a historic waterfront community in Skamania County. Coulee Dam A wealth of recreational opportunities including fishing, nature walks, hiking, golf, camping and ice/roller skating. Eatonville The gateway to Mount Rainier National Park. Northwest Trek Wildlife Park is a wildlife sanctuary while visitors can journey back to the 1880's at Pioneer Farm Museum & Ohop Indian Village to experience homesteading in Washington. Ferndale Located just north of Bellingham in the Northwest corner of Washington State, Ferndale celebrates its Scottish heritage, among its many annual events, in early June during the annual Scottish Highland Games. Major attractions in Ferndale include The Hovander Homestead, a 1903 vintage farmhouse and interpretive center; Pioneer Park which has the largest collection of original log homes in the country, each one a mini-museum; and the Tennant Lake Natural History Interpretive Center which provides a nature walk and boardwalk. FERNDALE HOTELS Gig Harbor Nestled at the south end of Puget Sound, Gig Harbor is a quaint fishing village community with wonderful shopping dining and a variety of recreational opportunities from golf to kayaking. GIG HARBOR HOTELS Goldendale Located in Klickitat County, Goldendale has a replica of England’s Stonehenge. The Maryhill Museum of Art is a historical museum built on the Columbia Rivers Cliffs. GOLDENDALE HOTELS Grays Harbor Ideally located on the central coast, Grays Harbor is the gateway to the Quinault area with a pristine, temperate rain forest, glacier carved lake, and abundant wildlife. Kirkland Just a stone's throw away from Seattle on the shores of Lake Washington, Kirkland offers an array of recreational activities, shopping, dining and more including The Kirkland Performance Center in the heart of downtown, which presents high quality, professional performing arts companies and individual artists for local and regional audiences. KIRKLAND HOTELS Kitsap Peninsula Just 9 miles west of Seattle, the unspoiled Kitsap Peninsula offers a bounty of recreational, cultural, historical and shopping opportunities including the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Bremerton Naval Museum, Marine Science Center, Poulsbo and Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport. Lake Roosevelt Opportunities for boating, fishing, swimming, camping, canoeing and visiting historic Fort Spokane and St. Paul's Mission. Lakewood The Fort Lewis Military Museum features a collection of uniforms, arms and accouterments as well as tanks, cannon and wheeled vehicles. Lakewold Gardens is considered one of the nation’s finest estate gardens. LAKEWOOD HOTELS Leavenworth This is Washington State’s own Bavarian village. The Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum , the only all-nutcracker museum in the U.S., shows nutcrackers from the 15th century to present times. LEAVENWORTH HOTELS Long Beach Peninsula Attractions include lighthouses such as Cape Disappointment and North Head, beaches and trails, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Fort Canby, the Oysterville Historic District, and the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge & Interpretive Center, as well as the World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame. LONG BEACH HOTELS Lynden This small town with a Dutch feel has a number of special events, usually centered around themes of agriculture or the Dutch Heritage shared by many residents. Methow Valley Visitors step back in time to the late 1800's and the western frontier with a visit to Winthrop. Mount Baker The second most active volcano in the Cascade Range. Mount Baker is at the center of Mt. Baker Wilderness area offering a range of recreational activities including skiing. Mount Rainier An active volcano encased in over 35 square miles of snow and ice with a park containing examples of old growth forests and subalpine meadows. The only year-round entrance to Mount Rainier National Park is Nisqually River Valley. Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument The active volcano with numerous viewpoints, miles of trails and a Visitors Center is in Gifford Pinchot National Forest . Mount Vernon A pioneer city on the banks of the Skagit River famous in the spring for its Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. MOUNT VERNON HOTELS North Cascades National Park The North Cascades National Park Service Complex includes North Cascades National Park and Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. Ocean Shores Billed as "Washington's Getaway", Ocean Shores and its sister communities offer a wide range of activities and attractions from wildlife adventures to mini-golf. OCEAN SHORES HOTELS Okanogan National Forest Over a million acres of natural wilderness make up this national forest in the northern Cascades.
Olympic Peninsula This World Heritage Site, holds one of the last great wilderness areas in the US. Bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, it holds a temperate rain forest, rivers, alpine peaks, glaciers, salmon and Roosevelt elk and is home to both native people and recent pioneers. Port Townsend A spectacular Victorian seaport designated a National Historic Landmark, renowned for its Victorian and Rhododendron Festivals. PORT TOWNSEND HOTELS Pullman and Moscow in the Palouse Region is the home of Washington State University, the National Lentil Festival and the rolling hills of Palouse. PULLMAN HOTELS Raymond on the Willapa River is home to the Willapa Seaport Museum and Public Market on the Willapa. The Willapa Hills State Trail is a 5 mile bicycle and walking trail that follows the Willapa River. Renton is located on the southshore of Lake Washington, just minutes from SeaTac airport, Seattle and Bellevue and offers a variety of attractions, restaurants and recreational opportunities including the Sprit of Washington dinner train, IKEA Performing Arts Center and Henry Moses Aquatic Center. RENTON HOTELS Richland One of the Tri-Cities – the other two are Kennewick and Pasco - and one of its major attractions is Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science & Technology, a museum and science center created to tell the dynamic story of the Columbia Basin and surrounding region. RICHLAND HOTELS San Juan Islands The San Juan Islands offer year-round outdoor adventures in a temperate climate only 30 minutes from Seattle by air, or two-and-a-half hours by car and ferry. Visitors meander the backroads of pastoral Lopez, Shaw and hilly Orcas, but always end up at the town of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island , the business center for the islands. The San Juan Island National Historical Park was created to commemorate the peaceful resolution of the Pacific Northwest boundary dispute – or "Pig War" – between the United States and Great Britain. Visitors take another step back in time with a visit to historic Roche Harbor, once the home of a lime and cement company, where paths are paved with the bricks which lined the lime kilns. The San Juan Islands also boast some 250 bird species, some resident, some migratory. Many visitors go specifically for birding . Sea Tac - see Seattle Southside SEATAC HOTELS
Some of the fun family attractions are the Seattle Aquarium, the Odyssey, the Maritime Discovery Center , the Pacific Science Center, the Experience Music Project, Woodland Park Zoo, and the Seattle Center. Landmark attractions include Pike Place Market, a menagerie of flying fish, farmers, artists and street performers, the Space Needle with its observation deck at 500ft, and the Underground Tour to the spooky city that lies beneath Seattle's present street level. Not to forget experiences on-the-move like Argosy Cruises. SEATTLE HOTELS   Cruising to SeattleSeattle Southside Centrally situated near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle Southside is just 15 minutes south of downtown Seattle and 18 minutes north of Tacoma's city center. Seattle Southside hosts more than 54 hotels and over 45 full-service restaurants, over 5 million square feet of shopping, including the state's largest indoor shopping mall, the world-renowned Museum of Flight (with the West Coast's only Concorde!) and easy access to sports stadiums, parks and landmarks. SEATAC HOTELS Snohomish County Attractions include the Boeing plant at Everett, shopping for antiques, fishing for salmon, and hiking and water rafting in the North Cascades. South Bend is the self proclaimed "Oyster Capital of the World". The Pacific County Historical Courthouse overlooks South Bend and the history of the Willapa Bay region is preserved at the Pacific County Historical Society Museum. Spokane The 100-acre Riverfront Park is Spokane's centerpiece hosting a variety of attractions and events. Other attractions include the Cheney Cowles Museum with its excellent regional history exhibits, art exhibitions and Native American Indian artifacts, and the Fairchild Air Force Base Heritage Museum. Tacoma The highlight is Tacoma’s new Museum District downtown. Here three major museums form an impressive triangle: the Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum. Linking them is the spectacular, pedestrian-only Chihuly Bridge of Glass and historic Union Station, also filled with Chihuly glass art. Other attractions include the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Job Carr Cabin(where Tacoma was founded in 1864),Tacoma Nature Center, Working Waterfront Museum, Children's Museum of Tacoma and Point Defiance Park, which includes the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum (a restored 1855 Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post) and Camp 6 Logging Exhibit & Museum. TACOMA HOTELS Tukwila Home to the Boeing Company Corporate Headquarters and the world-famous Museum of Flight which features 54 mint condition airplanes. - see Seattle Southside TUKWILA HOTELS Umatilla National Forest 1.4-million acres of diverse landscapes and plant communities located in the Blue Mountains of southeast Washington and northeast Oregon. Vancouver Centrally located for The Cascade Mountain Range, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and Mt. Hood. Historical attractions include the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and nextdoor The Pearson Air Museum, located on Pearson Field, the oldest continually operating air field in the US. VANCOUVER HOTELS Wenatchee Located at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers, Wenatchee stretches for miles beneath a line of spectacular, semiarid mountain ridges and is at the forefront of Washington's apple industry. Attractions include Rocky Reach Dam, the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center showcasing local & regional history & the arts, the alpine Ohme Gardens and the Cashmere Pioneer Village and Museum as well numerous opportunities for outdoor recreation. WENATCHEE HOTELS Whale watching One of Washington’s most popular coastal attractions is offered by many companies including Island Mariner Cruises, Orca Whales, and Victoria/San Juan Cruises . Whidbey and Camano Islands Located just northwest of Seattle the islands offer a wealth of activities from golfing, beachcombing, swimming and hiking to shopping and dining. Located at the northern end of Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor offers sweeping views of Puget Sound and the surrounding Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges. OAK HARBOR HOTELS Willapa Bay is a pristine estuary that is known for the succulent Willapa Bay oysters. There is fishing, crabbing and clam digging at the quiet seaside village of Tokeland. Wine Country Washington state leads the world in the production of apples and oysters, mint oil and hops .... and it is home to many vineyards. Yakima Valley An area of beauty with mountain passes and wine country, and the charm of small rural communities. YAKIMA HOTELS Photo courtesy Levy Sheckler | |||||||
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