Cook’s Lomatium
Cook’s Lomatium is recognizable by a low parsley relative with finely divided leaves and small yellow umbels.
Places and wildlife — page 44
Browse Explore’s field guide to destinations, wildlife, art, and the natural world. Open a discovery for practical details and background.
Port Orford Cedar
Port Orford Cedar is recognizable by a tall aromatic conifer with flattened sprays, tiny scale leaves, and small round cones.
The Museum of Flight
Historic aircraft, the Boeing Red Barn, restoration work, and the outdoor Aviation Pavilion connect flight technology with the industries and people that built it.
Museum of Pop Culture
Museum of Pop Culture focuses the visit on music and Frank Gehry’s rippling building and the changing headline.
Seattle Art Museum
At Seattle Art Museum, the collection galleries and rotating special exhibitions connects global art interpreted through a Pacific Northwest institution.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture focuses the visit on Northwest natural history and culture in an openly and visible labs.
Chihuly Garden and Glass
At Chihuly Garden and Glass, the Glasshouse installation against the Space Needle and garden planting connects glass, light, plant form, and architectural display.
Wing Luke Museum
Wing Luke Museum focuses the visit on Asian American and East Kong Yick Building and guided historic-hotel spaces.
Museum of History & Industry
Museum of History & Industry focuses the visit on Seattle’s reinventions through work and Bezos Center.
National Nordic Museum
Nordic Journeys connects migration, labor, design, and contemporary identity across five Nordic countries and their communities in the United States.
Museum of Glass
Museum of Glass focuses the visit on studio glass as live process rather than finished and Hot Shop demonstrations and Chihuly Bridge of Glass.
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum places the art of the Northwest beside studio glass and two centuries of Western American art, making it unusually good for testing how artists have pictured this region—and who gets included in that picture.
LeMay – America’s Car Museum
More than 250 vehicles across four floors turn a celebrated private collection into a history of design, manufacturing, road culture, speed, energy, and the promises Americans attached to mobility.
Washington State History Museum
Washington State History Museum focuses the visit on Washington history through land and Great Hall.
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
At Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the galleries and adjoining Campbell House connects Inland Northwest art, Plateau cultures, regional history, and domestic life.
Pacific Science Center
Pacific Science Center focuses the visit on hands-on science and arches.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site makes a multinational fur-trade center, U.S.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
At Whitman Mission National Historic Site, the visitor-center film and hilltop view across the mission landscape connects Cayuse homeland, mission encounter, conflict, memory, and consequences.
Klondike Gold Rush – Seattle Unit
At Klondike Gold Rush – Seattle Unit, the preserved Cadillac Hotel and stories of people who supplied the rush connects Seattle’s role as outfitter, promoter, and gateway to the Klondike.
Hanford B Reactor
Hanford’s B Reactor connects the world’s first full-scale plutonium-production reactor to the people, displacement, wartime decisions, and environmental consequences surrounding it.
Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
Fort Nisqually Living History Museum focuses the visit on Hudson’s Bay Company trade and daily life on and reconstructed buildings.
San Juan Island National Historical Park
Two former military camps, separated across San Juan Island, show how a nearly bloodless boundary crisis unfolded within a much older Coast Salish homeland.
Fort Worden Historical State Park
Walk a former Coast Artillery post where concrete gun batteries, parade grounds, shoreline, and an active arts campus reveal more than a century of reuse.
Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve
A living rural reserve joins Coast Salish history, working farmland, historic Coupeville, prairie, bluff, and shoreline rather than enclosing them inside one park.
Olympic National Park
At Olympic National Park, the ecological contrast among Hurricane Ridge, Hoh, and the coast connects glaciated mountains, temperate rainforest, rivers, and wild Pacific coast.
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington’s ice-clad active volcano feeds five major rivers and rises through old forest into subalpine meadows, with every district revealing a different face.
North Cascades National Park
At North Cascades National Park, the North Cascades Visitor Center and Highway 20 viewpoints connects steep glaciated peaks, deep forests, turquoise reservoirs, and remote watersheds.
Deception Pass State Park
Tidal water races beneath a landmark bridge while forested headlands, coves, lakes, and beaches spread across both Whidbey and Fidalgo islands.
Palouse Falls State Park
Palouse Falls State Park focuses the visit on basalt canyon and 198-foot waterfall cut by catastrophic and official fenced overlooks and scale of the Palouse.
Cape Disappointment State Park
At the Columbia River’s ocean entrance, forested headlands frame powerful surf, two lighthouses, maritime danger, and Indigenous and expedition histories.
Lime Kiln Point State Park
At Lime Kiln Point State Park, the lighthouse viewpoint and quiet listening for marine mammals connects rocky Salish Sea shoreline, a historic lighthouse, and shore-based whale watching.
Moran State Park
At Moran State Park, Mount Constitution and the Olmsted tower above the San Juans connects lakes, old forest, CCC-era structures, and island-wide mountain views.
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
The 1980 landslide and lateral blast remain visible across a vast volcanic landscape where forests, lakes, lava, and ecological recovery are still changing.
Lake Chelan State Park
A developed south-shore park makes Lake Chelan’s clear glacial water accessible where dry eastern foothills begin to meet forested mountain terrain.
Sun Lakes–Dry Falls State Park
At Sun Lakes–Dry Falls State Park, Dry Falls overlook, coulees, lakes, and the interpretive center connects Ice Age flood geology on a scale larger than modern waterfalls.
Steamboat Rock State Park
A massive flat-topped basalt butte rises from Banks Lake, joining Ice Age flood geology, dry shrub-steppe, boating, and a steep summit route.
Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park
At Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, the interpretive center specimens and Trees of Stone trail connects petrified wood, Columbia basalt, shrub-steppe, and river views.
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area focuses the visit on 130-mile reservoir over a Columbia River landscape transformed and relationship among dam.
Snoqualmie Falls
Snoqualmie Falls focuses the visit on 268-foot waterfall with deep cultural significance to the and upper overlook.
Mount Baker
Mount Baker focuses the visit on glacier-clad active volcano rising above the North Cascades and Artist Point views toward Baker and Shuksan when.
Hurricane Ridge
Hurricane Ridge rises from Port Angeles into Olympic subalpine meadow, exposing a broad sequence of glacial valleys, high peaks, rapidly changing weather, and seasonal road access.
Hoh Rain Forest
At Hoh Rain Forest, moss-draped maples, nurse logs, river habitat, and layered canopy connects one of the finest temperate rainforests in the contiguous United States.
Lake Crescent
A glacially carved lake pairs startling blue water with old-growth forest, endemic trout, and several very different ways to reach the shore.
Rialto Beach
Sea stacks, driftwood, surf, and a tide-dependent walk toward Hole-in-the-Wall define Rialto Beach, but its normal road approach is currently closed.
The Enchantments
The Enchantments focuses the visit on granite basins and connected basin system rather than a single social-media.
Grand Coulee
At Grand Coulee, coulee walls, Dry Falls context, and Grand Coulee Dam’s later intervention connects a vast dry channel carved by repeated Ice Age floods.
Ape Cave
Descend into a pitch-black lava tube created by an ancient Mount St. Helens flow, choosing between a gentler lower passage and a strenuous scramble.
Diablo Lake
At Diablo Lake, the overlook’s view of glacial sediment, dams, and mountain walls connects turquoise reservoir water framed by steep North Cascades relief.