Washington’s first state park isn’t up a mountain — it’s a stretch of sandstone coastline south of Bellingham
The road to Artist Point just reopened at 5,140 feet — and the loop trail underneath it only just melted out
A natural granite waterslide sits one mile up this Snoqualmie Pass trail, and most people never go any farther
The busiest trailhead near Seattle pulls 300,000 hikers a year, and it sits on a town Seattle itself flooded
Washington’s most-visited state park sits above tidal currents that can hit 8 knots, and almost everyone just drives right over them
The sea stacks off Washington’s Second Beach have been a protected wildlife refuge since 1907, and you still can’t set foot on one
Two of the Columbia Gorge’s best waterfalls are hiding on the Washington side, and barely anyone stops for them
The best short hike near Seattle isn’t in the mountains — it’s a bluff on Whidbey Island that drops straight into the sea
This Puget Sound island is a 20-minute ferry ride from Seattle, and it’s having its biggest weekend of the year
This Washington resort has 15 floating cabins and zero road access — here’s how you actually get there
