Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, and has contributed to all sections of the magazine. Allison was raised in Olympia and earned degrees from Duke University 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.

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

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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

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Day Trips 2013: Featured Calendar

10/01/2013 By Allison Williams

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Day Trips 2013: I Spy on I-5

Your Interstate Bingo Card

10/01/2013 By Allison Williams

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Day Trips 2013: Snow Chart

Where to ski? Where to board? We're on it.

10/01/2013 Photography by Allison Williams

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Day Trips 2013: The Warehouse of Wines

Park once, drink wine all day. Now this is wine country.

10/01/2013 By Allison Williams

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Day Trips 2013: Treasure Hunt

Dig up something one-of-a-kind at antique stores.

10/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Day Trips

Destinations by Distance from Seattle

From 10 miles to 83 miles—pick a place by how much gas is in your tank.

10/01/2013 By Allison Williams

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Perfect Party

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

09/17/2013 By Allison Williams

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Road Trips: Wine Road Trips

Want to sample some of our top 100 wines? Here’s a selective guide to tasting rooms around the state.

09/03/2013 By Allison Williams With Brianna Lantz

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Perfect Party

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

09/03/2013 By Allison Williams

Nature Trips

Birdwatching for Beginners

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, really, it's a bird, and a new book breaks down our region's finest feathered friends.

08/08/2013 By Allison Williams

Local Tourism

All the Tourists Of the Rainbow: Seattle's LGBT Visitor Center

The Emerald City is among the first to target gay travelers.

08/06/2013 By Allison Williams

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

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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

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The Great Lake: Ways to Play

08/01/2013 By Allison Williams