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.
United States: places and wildlife — page 44
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
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.
Skyline Trail at Mount Rainier
Skyline Trail at Mount Rainier focuses the visit on demanding Paradise loop through meadow and Panorama Point.
Maple Pass Loop
A sustained North Cascades loop climbs from Rainy Pass forest to open ridges above Lake Ann, with larches, peaks, and long subalpine views.
Colchuck Lake Trail
Colchuck Lake Trail focuses the visit on steep forest ascent to a granite-walled alpine lake and Dragontail Peak and Colchuck Glacier above clear water.
Hoh River Trail
Hoh River Trail focuses the visit on long wilderness route following river terraces beneath rainforest and changes from visitor-area loops to quieter old forest.
Chain Lakes Loop
Circle beneath Table Mountain through flowered meadows and a chain of subalpine lakes, with views shifting between Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan.
Cape Flattery Trail
On the Makah Reservation, a forest-and-boardwalk trail descends to four platforms above sea caves, offshore wildlife, and Tatoosh Island.
Naches Peak Loop
A 3.5-mile loop joins Tipsoo Lake, the Pacific Crest Trail, subalpine meadows, huckleberries, and a broad Mount Rainier view.
Rattlesnake Ledge Trail
A popular forest ascent above Rattlesnake Lake ends on an unguarded rock ledge with broad views across the Cedar River watershed and Cascades.
Bloedel Reserve
At Bloedel Reserve, the Japanese Garden, Moss Garden, Reflection Pool, and preserved woodland connects a designed forest landscape balancing restraint, succession, reflection, and habitat.
Kubota Garden
Fujitaro Kubota adapted Japanese garden principles to a steep Seattle ravine using local stone, waterfalls, bridges, and layered evergreen planting.
Washington Park Arboretum
Seattle’s broad arboretum layers Azalea Way, native forest, conifers, wetlands, and global woody-plant collections into an evolving landscape.
Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo focuses the visit on animal behavior and naturalistic habitats and species active at different times.
Seattle Aquarium
At Seattle Aquarium, the Ocean Pavilion, harbor seals, and local tide-pool interpretation connects Salish Sea life, Pacific ecosystems, and conservation at the urban waterfront.
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
A combined zoo and aquarium pairs Pacific marine ecosystems with terrestrial wildlife, keeper talks, and conservation work inside Point Defiance Park.