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Kitsap/Olympic Peninsulas & The Pacific Coast

Few places in the world can boast beaches, rocky and sandy, luxurious rain forests, and glacier-saddled mountains soaring up to well over a height of a mile and a half above sea level. Could raw, untamed nature be more accessible? Add the quaint hamlet of Pouslbo with its obvious Norwegian influence, the darling Victorian-era communities of Port Gamble and Port Townsend with their arts and eateries. Then there’s that famous sandy peninsula called Long Beach. Welcome to the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas and our Pacific Coast.

Mount St. Helens, Vancouver & The Columbia River Gorge
Whether you’re peering into the stark and eerie crater of Mount Saint Helens or wandering through the amazing lava tube Ape Caves, you’ll know you are in a place where nature calls the shots. Visit historic Vancouver and walk along the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. Drive through the Columbia Gorge viewing modern windsurfers, 3,000-year-old pictographs and a standing replica of Stonehenge. The wonders just don’t stop.

North Central Washington
This is a land of contrasts, from dark and moist forests of the west and the Bavarian town of Leavenworth, to the arid channeled scablands to the east, attesting to the rampaging floods of the last Ice Age. Swing into Wenatchee on the banks of the Columbia. Take a spectacular boat trip up Lake Chelan, watch a flock of sandhill cranes or tour the largest electric power producing facility in the country at Grand Coulee Dam … the choices are as varied as the landscape.