Grant Goodeve Rolls out the Welcome Mat Best Scenic 8 Road Trips Journey Into Native Culture
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INSIDER TIPS · MAPS · OUTDOOR RECREA TIO N · WINE C OUNTRY WASHINGTON STATE 2013 This Land is Your Land grant goodeve rolls out the Welcome Mat BEsT sCEniC 8 road TriPs Journey into native Culture ScenicWA.com 1 Every weekend adventure needs a home base. Join us online and explore all the hotel weekend packages in Seattle Southside. Looking for the perfect spot for your weekend getaway? Look no further than Seattle Southside. It’s just minutes from downtown Seattle without the downtown price. Enjoy hundreds of shops, well-known restaurants, museums, and more. For the perfect combination of value and location,f stay in Seattle Southside. Seattle Southside: Your home base in the Pacific Northwest. SEATTLE SOUTHSIDE VISITOR CENTER Southside to Downtown Seattle in minutes! 1 (206) 971-0401 Our Washington State 6 | An Insider’s View 7 | Travel Highlights Contents 8 | Introduction Features 10 | Meet the Locals For Northwest Backroads host Grant Goodeve, it’s the people that make this state great. 15 | Rediscover Seattle Fresh things to do in the city we thought we knew. 19 | Found in the South Sound There is a world to explore between Seattle and Tacoma. 23 | A Retail Odyssey Our Backroads Insider explores some great I-5 exits for shopping success. 26 | The Native State The names of our indigenous tribes fill this land along with the people and traditions they carry. 31 | Power Trips Stunning spots that generate a lot of juice. 33 | Peak Experience Get the most out of winters in the VIEW OF THE COWLITZ CHIMNEYS DRIVING Evergreen State by heading for the WEST ON HIGHWAY 410 OVER CAYUSE PASS white stuff. 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You’re on your way, and the destination is still pure, perfect anticipation. Possibilities are endless, reality hasn’t intruded. Researchers in the Netherlands even found that the benefits of vacation show up during the planning stages; looking forward to a vacation boosts happiness for eight weeks. “My 2013 Travel Picks: Isn’t that great? I’ve got a plan for worldwide happiness. Let’s all go The Million-Dollar away more this year. Spread vacations days out and take long camping Mile on SR 155 weekends in late summer, when weather in Washington State is US 101 along Hood statistically the warmest. Book a winter getaway at Crystal Mountain Canal in november – Resort where it’s almost always possible to find good snow. Reserve maple leaves so big rooms for storm watching on Long Beach, fly fishing along the Yakima they might crack your River, or wine tasting in Walla Walla. windshield. I plan on contributing to the general welfare by taking a bunch of small vacations and having multiple “outta here” moments. Commit US 12 from Walla to fun now, and I guarantee the details will take care of themselves, as Walla to Waitsburg: you’re rolling down the road with a big fat smile on your face. Make it so Be sure to whistle that whenever taxes, pressure washing the driveway, or company picnics in Dixie. threaten your sacred weekend, you can honestly respond: “Sorry, no can The Mima Mounds do. I’ve got plans!” near Tenino. This magazine, the one you’ve got in your hands right now is a i’ve been in Westport potential mega-dose of happy. Getaways, adventures and discoveries surf, Wilbur wheat fields, right here in Washington State. Many, many vacations, which properly and the chaos of racing spaced, can keep you smiling the whole year. Scenic Washington 2013 commodes at conconully’s provides plenty of good “outta here”. annual outhouse races, So get going! because I lucked into TV producing years ago, and turned it into an Anne Erickson excuse to poke around Head Writer and Backroads Insider this fantastic, funky state. Scenic Washington State my goal? When you’re in Washington and someone asks “are we there yet?” your answer will always be, “Yep!” 6 Scenic Washington State 2013 Favorite Places from Scenic Washington Insiders “Palouse from “I like destinations “Alpine Lakes “Pacific Science “William Church Steptoe Butte– where you can Wilderness Center Dinosaurs, Winery Woodinville spring or fall set up a home Multiple-lake bugs and butterflies lucky 8’s Chinese Walla Walla– base and play backpacking and – oh my! Fort Restaurant Seattle several courses. fishing loop hike. Casey Big guns, grape harvest Rhododendron Bellingham, Kitsap Forks, WA Salmon saltwater shore and Mountain Loop Peninsula, Spokane a lighthouse. NW Cafe Bow Highway–winter and Steelhead on and the Tri-Cities Washington’s Trek Wildlife Park huckleberry’s Prosser Balloon are among my most scenic rivers. Eye to eye with wild Natural Market Rally–summer favorites. animals and a zip Spokane Mt. St. Helens line too. Tipsoo Lake– Ape Caves one The Black Cyprus summer wildflowers day, Summit hike Pullman the next. Golf Insider Marcus Yearout Family Shutter Stops I play golf much like Travel Insider Wine & Food Bubba Watson… that is Jennifer Coleman Insiders Richard Duval to say i hit the ball, find Intrepid Insider I like road trips, as Adrianne Young Culled from my frequent it and hit it again. that’s Nate Watters travels around scenic where the similarity ends long as i’m driving. We & Erik Cannella Snowshoeing, Washington, my wine, but, hey, you’ve got to camp in a tent (oh, the Erik and I weave food, snowboarding, fishing scenic and landscape start somewhere! humanity!) and seek wine and writing into or hiking—you’ll always images are found on adventure in the great our everyday. When not find me looking for a note cards, calendars pacific northwest. my working our farm, we’re new place to be. i’m a and bookstores and boys have uttered the serving dinner at our photographer by trade numerous gallery fateful words ‘are we wine country restaurant, and there aren’t many exhibits. there yet?!’ on many a Café Manson.