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The Local’s Map of Washington

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How well do you know Washington state? As part of our bucket lists of must–do experiences across the region, we boiled down what everyone needs to know about our geography. Basically: one direction is whales, the other one is bears.

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Start where Lewis and Clark ended: the Columbia River. Olympia is the city with the big white dome (Tacoma has one too though, now that we think about it), and Long Beach is the really long beach.

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Puget Sound is a crowded area, but we have to make room for both vampires and Trader Joe’s lines.

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The middle of the state might confuse you; it’s somehow both Bavarian and otherworldly.

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Go east, check out the rodeos and farmland, and take a ride over Spokane. But you have to pronounce it right.

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If you see a mountain that looks like Rainier, there’s only about a 20 percent chance that it’s actually Rainier.

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Wine, bears, and some dang good cheese: the southeast part of the state shows off.











Allison Williams
Allison Williams
Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into Olympic National Park, the Columbia River, and a Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about mountain mysteries and puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.  Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write guidebooks and climb mountains.