Travel & Outdoors

Article

Seattle Gets A New Trolley Service

Hop on, hop off: The city has yet another form of transportation, but this one's for tourists.

05/16/2013 By Brianna Lantz and 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

Unusual Experiences

Portland Hotel Invites Guests to Jog with the Staff

You have to be in pretty decent shape to complain about turndown service while running.

05/09/2013 By Allison Williams

Anniversary

It's 50 Years Since Jim Whittaker Took Everest

Half a century ago, a local boy became the first American on the top of the world.

05/01/2013 By Allison Williams

Hotels

Local Rooms: Hotel 1000

This is where we'll be for the next 1,000 happy hours.

04/25/2013 By Allison Williams

Air Travel

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Flies Again

The FAA formally gives the green light to the composite plane—but would you fly in it?

04/25/2013 By Allison Williams

INSIDER'S GUIDE

The Once and Future Waterfront

From Burien to the North End, the Seattle shoreline reveals our rich connection to the landscape, to industry, and to our lives.

04/17/2013

Article

Eat, Play, and Stay on the Waterfront

Restaurants with views, parks with beaches, and hotel rooms right on the shore—find 43 ways to play on our waterfront.

04/17/2013 By Allison Williams

Island Travel

Whale Watching in the San Juans

Orca tours turn Friday Harbor into a wildlife mecca, even in the off-season.

04/17/2013 By Allison Williams

Article

Big City, Big Nature

The view from Seattle waterfront designer James Corner

04/17/2013 By Lawrence W. Cheek

Article

A Walk on the Seattle Waterfront

From Burien to the North End, the Seattle shoreline reveals our rich connection to the landscape, to industry, and to our lives.

04/17/2013 By Lawrence W. Cheek

How High

Pot Tourism Hits Washington

Is weed travel our newest boom? Plus: Our picks for a stoner's tour of Seattle.

04/09/2013 By Allison Williams

Advice

Where We'd Go: Last-Ditch Spring Ski Trips

Don't take our puffy coats away yet.

04/08/2013 By Allison Williams

Get Out

Try This Trail: Guillemot Cove

It's time for something easy, beachy, and birdy.

04/08/2013 By Craig Romano

Foodie Travel

Cooking Classes, Minus the Kitchen

Please stop eating franks and beans in a raggedy old tent. There's a better way to camp.

04/03/2013 By Allison Williams

Advice

Where We'd Go: Five Early Spring Trips

Got a hankering for travel but nowhere to go? We suggest five destinations that are hot right now.

03/26/2013 By Allison Williams

Air Travel

Live Music at Sea-Tac Airport: Annoying or Amazing?

If we have to take off our shoes, we deserve some free tunes.

03/25/2013 By Allison Williams

Get Out

Try This Trail: Lanham Lake

Visit a mountain named for the region's "empire builder"—it's as impressive as you'd expect.

03/13/2013 By Craig Romano

Hotels

Local Rooms: Cedarbrook Lodge

Don't think of it as an airport hotel (unless you're going to the airport).

03/08/2013 By Allison Williams