The biggest waterfall that ever existed sits dry in central Washington, and its visitor center is closed
This 9.4-mile Washington coast loop has almost zero elevation gain, and centuries-old rock art waits at the halfway point
This 151-foot Washington waterfall drops directly under I-90, and the hike to see it is under two miles
This 848-foot monolith was bought for a dollar to save it from becoming jetty rock, and Washington almost let Oregon have it
Washington’s Steptoe Butte is 400 million years older than the lava around it, and it gave geology a word used worldwide
Washington’s second-deepest lake is so clear you can see 60 feet down, and the easy hike here ends at a 90-foot waterfall
Leavenworth’s Bavarian storefronts aren’t historic — the whole town repainted itself in the 1960s, and the gamble paid off
Washington’s first state park isn’t up a mountain — it’s a stretch of sandstone coastline south of Bellingham
South of Olympia, a Washington prairie is covered in thousands of dirt mounds nobody’s fully explained
This picture-perfect loop near Mount Rainier crosses two kinds of federal land, and it decides which parking pass you need
The busiest day hike in North Cascades National Park follows a trade route that’s older than the state itself
Long Beach calls itself the world’s longest beach, but the real surprise is that you can legally drive on it
The highest point in the San Juan Islands has a 1930s stone tower on top, and you can drive right to it
Washington’s most photographed sea stacks sit on tribal land, and reaching them takes two separate permits
The deadliest avalanche in U.S. history hit Washington, and the trail through it is easier than you’d think
This 3.3-mile loop near Mount Rainier crosses onto the Pacific Crest Trail, and half of it isn’t even inside the park
The longest lava tube in the continental U.S. sits under Mount St. Helens, and it never warms past 42 degrees
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
