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.

Insider's Guide

The Complete Guide to North Cascades National Park and Lake Chelan

How to hike across, sleep in, dive into, drive through, fly over, and fall in love with our northern peaks and lakes.

08/05/2013 By Allison Williams

The North Cascades

The Great Escape: Stehekin’s Remote Adventure

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

The North Cascades

The Great Lake: Chelan

Dive into the quintessential family vacation on the water.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

The Great Eats: Food and Wine in Manson

Chelan’s looser, littler sibling is just seven miles up the lake and home to some of the area’s best culinary flair.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

The Great Lake: Ways to Play

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Small Town, Big Plans: New Urbanism at the Lookout

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

The North Cascades

The Great Drive: North Cascades Highway

A 100-mile road trip on the prettiest, wildest stretch of highway in the state.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Overnights

Camping in North Cascades National Park: The Extreme Scale

Where to sleep in the North Cascades, from easy to extreme.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

The North Cascades

The Great Outdoors: What the Wild Things Are

Keep an eye out for these critters on your next trip north.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

The Great Outdoors: North Cascades National Park

Hiking, swimming, camping, eating, and wine tasting: Get out to our hidden gem of a national park and lakeside retreat.

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Small-Town Gourmet, Take Two

07/22/2013 By Allison Williams

Day Trips

Sun on a Beach

Show us the sand, we'll bring the flippy-floppies.

07/15/2013 By Allison Williams

Get Out

Oh Go Jump in a Lake

Hike a little, float a little: Six trails that lead to swimmable lakes.

07/08/2013 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.

07/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Hotel News

Semiahmoo Resort Is Back with a Buyer

Like Frankenstein's monster but more golfy: The hotel near the border is resurrected after its December closing.

06/21/2013 By Allison Williams

Movie Trip

The State's Best (Okay, Only) Drive-Ins

Put on your bobby socks and take off the convertible top for a summertime drive-in flick—while you still can.

06/20/2013 By Allison Williams

Air Travel

Sea-Tac Airport Is Infested With Bees (On Purpose)

Also at the airport: The TSA reverses decision to allow knives on airplanes again.

06/05/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Insider’s Guide to the Seattle Icons You Thought You Knew

Behind-the-scenes secrets of everything from the Space Needle to the Duck Tour. Remind yourself what the city’s 10 million tourists are just finding out—Seattle is full of surprises.

05/22/2013 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.

05/22/2013 By Allison Williams

Hotels

Hotel Ballard Opens, So Let's All Vacation in Ballard

Welcome a luxury property above a gym and right across from King's Hardware.

05/10/2013 By Allison Williams