Category: Travel

MONDAY FOOD & DRINK Women in Beer At this event honoring the women in the Northwest craft beer industry, try tastes and bites from over 35 different women-run restaurants, cideries, wineries, chocolatiers, cheesemakers, and...

The Best Beaches on Washington’s Coast for a Day Trip The Washington coast has many great beaches, so the hardest decision you will be forced to make is which one to visit this weekend.  In this article we take a look a...

The Washington coast has many great beaches, so the hardest decision you will be forced to make is which one to visit this weekend.  In this article we take a look a few Washington Beaches that are perfect for a quick day trip...

If we were in a ski resort, the first big powder dump of the season would be scoured by groomers or tracked out in minutes. But here, far from a formal in-bounds area, this Central Cascades mountainside is unadulterated...

1. Whistler  After 25 years, the ski mountain’s Pride and Ski Festival proves that LGBT festivities are as fun in fuzzy mittens as they are in summertime booty shorts. Jan 22–29, whistler.com[1] 2. Mukilteo  Fold and fly a paper...

10am Start the day at your state’s capital city with some civic pride, or at least peek at what all those tax dollars are doing. The free capitol campus tour[1] swings by the office of the most powerful elected officials...

  Ride the Rails in Elbe 1 hour, 30 minutes The Mount Rainier Railroad has been around forever, chugging dutifully along seven miles of track outside the national park, but since 2013 the museum on the Mineral end of the rails...

11am Ferry time! Thanks to the half-hour Edmonds-to-Kingston ride, a trip to Port Townsend is a mere 50 miles of driving. Consider Port Gamble[1]—an old sawmill town located right before the Hood Canal Bridge—a kind of preview;...

Noon Of course you didn’t arrive till noon, you suffered through traffic. Once safely out of gridlock, relax on the placid waterfront at the Foss Waterway Seaport, a kind of greenhouse for boats on Tacoma’s industrial waterway....

Sea Otter Hunted nearly to extinction for their thick pelts, the mammals live an indulgent life, spending their days floating on their backs, eating a quarter of their weight in clams and crabs, and, for at least 15 percent of...

If you slip and fall, you probably won’t die. A near-vertical trail rises from Olympic National Park’s Third Beach to the top of the Taylor Point headland, a necessary detour to continue south down the wild coastline. When it...

“It’s almost like euphoria,” says Courtney Winck from Hobuck Beach, peering at the two-mile stretch of sand that curls on itself at either end. “Really peaceful and serene.” Only a surfer would call a crashing Pacific wave...