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.

Super Bowl Travel

5 Seattley Sites to Visit in NYC Before the Super Bowl

They call it the Big Apple, but the Emerald City represents.

01/27/2014 By Allison Williams

Seattle Attractions

The Museum of Flight is Cheap Until the Seahawks Lose

If you needed a reason to root for the hometown football team, here's a good one.

01/03/2014 By Allison Williams

Player's Club

Scene in Seattle: Board Games at Raygun Lounge

A night at a game mecca

01/02/2014 By Allison Williams

Weekend Pass

The McMenamin Experience

Two Portland brothers turned an affection for pubs into a sprawling hospitality empire. Plus: our favorite McMenamin hotels.

01/02/2014 By Allison Williams

Northwest Travel Dispatch

Winter 2013 Travel News

What’s happening where, from Canada to Oregon to the end of the road.

12/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Travel

Skiing My Own Private Idaho

How to get a ski mountain all to yourself (without being Clint Eastwood).

12/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Explainer

How West Seattle's Craziest Christmas Light Display Is Created

The Menashe family strings a quarter million twinklers around its property on Beach Drive every winter, drawing gawkers from across the city. This is how they light up the night.

11/15/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

11/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Snow Sports

Ski Season's Already Here

Summer is really, truly over. The ski mountains are really open.

10/07/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Day Trips 2013: Featured Calendar

08/06/2013 By Allison Williams