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North Cascades Highway
Worth visiting!
A tip I have about this place
Be sure and gas up in Marblemount or Twisp.
Also make sure it’s open over the passes. :-)
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!
Be sure and gas up in Marblemount or Twisp.
Also make sure it’s open over the passes. :-)
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!
Even just driving the North Cascades Highway without stopping is worth doing, but you’ll want to stop in Newhalem and learn about the region. Have a little adventure at the dams, and be sure to hike up Thunder Creek a ways (trailhead in Colonial Creek campground).
The spectacular scenery starts outside the east end of the official recreation area, culminating at Rainy and Washington passes.
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!
Ab-so-lutely.
mile23
Seattle
Not worth visiting!
What. Ever.
It’s like going to the first McDonalds, or the first Kentucky Fried Chicken, or the first Coca-Cola bottling plant.
Don’t go here. Go find an honest-to-goodness mom-and-pop espresso stand.
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!
Picnic, skateboard, kites, wandering, bicycle. It’s pretty much the perfect city park.
Go during a festival. Go on a sunny day. Take a date in the evening, find the ‘secret’ benches that face the city across the water, and make out. Or just write poetry. Or something.
Easy access by bike via Burke-Gillman Trail.
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!
You’re a ‘Twin Peaks’ fan, so you know.
Don’t take I-90 to get there. Align your trip so you pass through Fall City, on the backroads. If you can help it, take the Snoqualmie Trail, which is a wide, paved, rail-to-trail path from near Fall City.
mile23
Seattle
Not worth visiting!
Overpriced, crowded, claustrophobic, and the view isn’t really all that good. Go up the Smith Tower instead, or go over to that park on the side of Queen Anne.
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Lolo Trail is an ancient trade route, eventually ‘discovered’ by Lewis and Clark, through north-central Idaho. It parallels the Lochsha River along the ridge to the north.
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Seattle
Big Spring is part of the geothermal system of Yellowstone. It joins the runoff from Henry’s Lake in the northeast tip of Idaho, to form the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River watershed.
mile23
Seattle
Worth visiting!