Pacific Northwest Regional Information

(updated 12/3/2004)

Pacific sunset at Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Oregon

Information about Cannon Beach is at Welcome to Cannon Beach, and the Oregon City Link.

 

The National Park Service has a searchable listing of National Parks. There is the Gorp's Oregon Page, and its Washington Page. Both have a lot of links to recreation in these states. The Columbia River Gorge National. Scenic Area is close to Portland and Gorp has a good description of the Gorge and its recreation.

  

If you find the Gorge interesting there are some historic photos available.

If you are interested in the Oregon Trail, look at its listing in Oregon Online Highways.

 

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Portland

 

This view is from the Fremont Bridge.

You can look at photos of all the Portland, OR bridges.

 

Look at the City of Portland OR, The Portland Visitors Association, Portland Parks and Recreation, Yahoo! Portland listings. You can look at the Welcome to Portland page. For art look at the Portland Art Museum. The Pittock Mansion is one attraction. Catholics would be especially interested in the Grotto.

 

Above is historic photo of Mt. Hood with Portland in the foreground. click on the photo for a larger version.

For general lists of video cam sits see Tommy's list of Live Cams Worldwide.

 

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Washington State

Access Washington

Washington State Tourism

Yakima, WA The Yakima County and Yakima Valley are recognized for wine, and fruit. Click here for a street map of the City of Yakima. There is the Yakima Valley Museum, and various activities.   Scenes along the route from Yakima to the parish heading west along Highway 12 or 410 across the mountains.

Seattle, WA

 

 

Check out the pastor's Seattle photos, and Seattle Scenes two.

 

Seattle Cam views.

If you would like to look at Seattle stuff, check the Seattle Loftcam and virtual loft for the harborcam, boating and art info, and its live cams around Seattle, see the Cam shots of the University of Washington, or for more usual sites look at Yahoo's Seattle links. Be sure to see the University of Washington home page with its almost live shot of the campus. The Jesuits run Seattle University on First Hill (also called "pill hill" because of all the hospitals found there.) The Seattle Times has a Centenial site on Seattle with lots of stories and pictures. The Seattle Virtual Tour is a must see. Read about the Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe on the Waterfront and its mummies. Pioneer Square is a great historic district that goes back to the beginning of the city. Check out the Port of Seattle and its Waterfront attractions. Look at the Seattle King County visitor's resources. Green Lake.

 

Things to Do, Places to Go  

Seattle Aquarium, the Woodland Park Zoo.

 

The Seattle Space Needle Museum of Flight The Pacific Science Center

Washington Park Arboretum Pike Place Market Seattle Art Museum

 

Seattle is the home of a number of interesting companies. One that has been an institution here for years is REI (Recreational Equipment Incorporated) which started in Seattle in 1938. Eddie Bauer's started even earlier, in 1920, with sporting goods. Other local outfits of interest include Starbucks which started at the Pike Place Market. Some folks like Seattle's Best Coffee better. (They have a location at the market too.) To round out the coffee scene, now there is Tully's. The largest industrial employer in Washington State is the Boeing Company - be sure to visit the Museum of Flight. As a Mac user I hesitate to mention the man in Redmond, WA but I suppose I must: Microsoft. On a more pleasant note, The Nordstrom Company has its start in Seattle. Among the lesser known would the Redhook Ale Brewery located in one of Seattle's more colorful neighborhoods, Fremont.

Travel in Washington has a photo gallery of Washington State, and a winter sports link list.

Seattle has its own National Park, i.e. the Klondike God Rush Historical Park, Seattle Unit. Additional historical material can be found at the Washington State History Link.

Especially in winter it is useful to check the weather information sites to to avoid trouble: the National Weather Service Information for Seattle is the most comprehensive source of information. KOMO's weather center is an good place to find weather and climate information in our state, especially the weather map for the southern Washington State area. See the Weather page for Seattle.

For transportation in Washington State look at the WSDOT home page and its extensive travelor's information. If you are interested in Seattle driving conditions (usually bad) check the WSDOT Puget Sound Traffic Cams. (I like the the bridge cams along 520, but the one on I-5 at Yessler is near the chancery). (One report says Seattle has the 6th worst driving congestion in the U.S.; it tied with Detroit.)

 

To see a live cam shot of the waterfront go to the Loft Cam, or see the ferry cams at the Washington State Ferry site.

 

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Tacoma, WA

Tacoma Images   Tacoma Washington has a home page, as does the Port of Tacoma. Washington Online Highways has a Tacoma listing. The City of Tacoma has information on Public Art, and there is a good site by the Park District of Tacoma. The Tacoma Dome has a site, and the Point Defiance Park. photo gallery and Zoo homepage The Narrows Bridge replaced "Galloping Gertie" (this link has footage of the oscillation, as well as black and white still photos). Click here for a traffic cam shot of the bridge. Tacoma has the Museum of Glass, and its new Art Museum, and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass connecting the Washington State Historical Museum with the Museum of Glass. For news try the Tacoma News Tribune. Also look at the University of Washington Tacoma campus, University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University for higher education. Soundtransit operates a commuter rail system from Tacoma to Seattle.

 

Olympia, WA

The City of Olympia has a home page as does Thurston County. Olympia is also the Washington State Capitol. Take at look at the Home Page for Washington State.  Be sure to look at the Washington State Visiting and Recreation page maintained by the state government and the recreation and sports page from Travel in Washington.

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The City of Vancouver WA

Fort Vancouver

Clark County Home Page

 

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City of Longview - Kelso WA - Toledo, WA - Centralia, WA

See Washington Online Highways for all the State's Cities and Towns.

Views of Morton Wa.

 

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Parks and Beaches in and near Washington

Washington State Parks

Columbia River Columbia River Gorge Natl. Scenic area, and look at the Columbia River live cam at Gorge net, The Columbia River Gorge Visitor's Association, Gorp's Columbia River material, Friends of the Gorge, In The Gorge, and various Columbia River web sites See also Historic Photos of the Columbia. (Check out the Windsurfing.)

Pacific Coast

 

Fort Clatsop in Astoria, Or., Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Wesport, Ocean Shores, Longbeach Peninsula (they have serveral slide shows and live cam shots of the beach), National Marine Sanctuary, and NOOA's Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary page, and the Clumbia Cascades Cluster.

 

Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula, the Official Olympia National Park Page, Gorp's Olympia Natl. Park page, photo albums of the park, Unofficial Olympic National Park, and the Olympic National Forest. One unique feature is the rain forest.

You can also look at a map of the Columbia Cascades Parks covering the whole region, with links to more information.  

 

The North Cascades There is the National Park Service site. Be sure to look at Ross Lake, and Lake Chelan. Visit the Mt. Baker volcano, Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, and the Wenatchee National Forest sites.

Other links: The Pacific Northwest Trail Association, "The 1200 mile Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT), running from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean, ranks among the most scenic trails in the world."

 

Southwestern Washington Recreation in East Lewis County Washington including: Specific activities - Mt. St, Helens - Mt. Rainier - Gifford Pinchot Natl. Forest. Cascade Volcanoes: Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens and Mr. Adams

 

 

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Northwest flowers and gardens.

The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island. Be sure to look at the Pacific Northwest Gardening. Nortwest Garden Show. Seattle's Japanese Garden located in the Washington Park Arboretum,.and Tacoma's Japanese garden. Woodland Park Zoo Rose Garden. Point Defiance in Tacoma has a rose garden as well as several others. See also the Public rose gardens of Puget Sound. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, and Spring at the DeGoede Bulb Farm near Mossyrock; they have their own web site and map. Raintree Nursery is near Morton.   This rose was in the Point Defiance rose garden in Tacoma. ->

Victoria, B.C.

Coho Ferry, Port Angeles - WA State Ferry - Victoria Clipper

The Butchart Gardens - City of Victoria
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Royal British Columbia Museum
BCTravel Internet Travel Guide

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If the NorthWest is heading into a wet fall and winter,

Click here to see a place where spring is starting.

 

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Initial posting:7/22/98.