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Northwest Travel Winter 2021–22: Where to Go, What to Know

Image: Jordan Kay

WINTER:

Bird’s-Eye View

Crater Air’s photography flights dip a wing into Crater Lake National Park and capture sky-high views of Oregon’s southern volcanoes.

Salt the Rim

Medford may be miles from the beach, but the Coquille Indian Tribe opens a 111-room Compass by Margaritaville hotel in early 2022 to bring a little Jimmy Buffett chill to Southern Oregon.

General Knowledge

The new Walla Walla General Store aims far beyond the staples, linking home and kitchen retail with a community learning space for food and art workshops.

Off-Kilter Ales

Kooky drinking event Strange Brewfest plans to return to Port Townsend in February, celebrating microbreweries and creative performers like belly dancers and chainsaw carvers.

Eastside Picks Up

Wintergrass, Bellevue’s famed bluegrass fest, returns with four February days of scheduled shows and even more music wafting from hotel lobbies, bars, and hallways.

Published in the The Best New Restaurants of 2021 issue of Seattle Met.











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.