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Allison Williams
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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.

Resilient Seattle
The Doctor Will Zoom You Now

Resilient Seattle
How You Can Help Seattle Weather the Pandemic

Classic Cinema
The Pandemic Launched a New Era for Drive-In Theaters

Summer Is In Tents
How to Find a Campsite Now That Everyone Is Camping

Sign of the Times
How Umbrellas Became the Symbol of Seattle Protests

Locked-Up Lockdown
Quarantine in a Washington Prison Is Tense

Time to Remember
Things to Do for Memorial Day That Are Totally Allowed

Turn the Tide
Don't Go to the Beach for Memorial Day

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Washington's Next Volcanic Eruption

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens Wildlife: Don’t Call it a Comeback

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Art St. Helens: Creations Inspired by a Volcano's Destruction

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is Not a National Park

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Visiting the East Side of Mount St. Helens: Otherworldly Escape

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Visiting the South Side of Mount St. Helens: On Top of Old Smokey

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Visiting the North Side of Mount St. Helens: Crater Crash Course

Guide to Mount St. Helens
A Timeline of Mount St. Helens

Guide to Mount St. Helens
Bill Nye, the Volcano Guy

Guide to Mount St. Helens