Canadian Border to Mount Vernon
The tour runs almost due north/south through a green and pleasant region of truck gardens, orchards, woodland patches, and meadowlands, and neat, attractive houses and well-built barns.
This leg of the tour has 11 waypoints and 5 side trip tours
Key Waypoints along Canadian Border to Mount Vernon
Blaine
The town derives its income chiefly from tourists’ trade and from the surrounding farming area. A small co-operative shingle mill... Visit
Bellingham
Port of call 18 miles south of the Canadian Border, industrial and educational center, and distribution point for northwestern Washington.... Visit
Burlington
A shipping center and local supply point for the fertile Skagit Valley. First settled in 1882 by John P. Millett... Visit
Mount Vernon
The seat of Skagit County, it was named for Washington’s Potomac home. The Skagit River has played an important part... Visit
All waypoints on this leg
- Peace Arch State Park
- Blaine
- Custer
- Ferndale
- Bellingham ★
- Downtown Bellingham
- Lake Samish
- Davenport Barn
- Burlington
- Carlson House
- Mount Vernon ★
★ Mainstreet Community
Side trips along Canadian Border to Mount Vernon
Sumas
This 54 mile side trip explores farming communties in the Nooksack River valley and Sumas Prairie.
Birch Bay
This 10 mile side trip cuts through an area once populated with small farms, and orderly houses set in neat patches of lawn, and woods of vigorous, second-growth fir and alder to reach Birch Bay.
Lummi Island
This 31 side trip includes a ferry crossing as it winds out along the shoreline to reach Lummi Island.
Chuckanut Drive
This 24 mile side trip covers marine aquaculture along Samish Bay, agriculture in the north portion of the Skagit Valley, runs along the west edge of the Chuckanut Mountains that supplied sandstone for buildings in Bellingham and Fairhaven.
Little Mountain Park
This 8 mile side trip takes visitors to one of the best viewpoints of the Skagit Valley.
Side trips along Canadian Border to Mount Vernon
There are no side trips along this tour leg.
Mount Vernon to Seattle
The tour crosses through rich agricultural lands along the flats and deltas of the Skagit, the Stillaguamish, and the Snohomish Rivers, which with their tributaries reach back through many miles of rolling land and wooded foothill to the Cascade Mountains.
This leg of the tour has 22 waypoints and 9 side trip tours
Key Waypoints along Mount Vernon to Seattle
Mount Vernon
The seat of Skagit County, it was named for Washington’s Potomac home. The Skagit River has played an important part... Visit
All waypoints on this leg
- Mount Vernon ★
- Larson Barn
- Conway
- Milltown
- Stanwood
- East Stanwood
- Florence
- Long Barn
- Warm Beach
- Tulalip
- Indian Shaker Church
- Marysville
- Steamboat Slough Bridge
- Everett
- Silver Lake (Snohomish County)
- Keeler’s Korner
- Shoreline
- Mid-Century Signage
- Green Lake
- Fremont
- Pink Elephant Car Wash
- Seattle
★ Mainstreet Community
Side trips along Mount Vernon to Seattle
Darrington
This 82 mile side trip follows the north fork of the Stillaguamish River up into the North Cascade Mountains from farmland to mining towns.
Silverton
This 74 mile side trip runs up the river valley of the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River, follows abandoned Monte Cristo branch of Northern Pacific railroad; railroad used to run all the way up to Monte Cristo, mining towns.
Bothell
This 16 mile side trip drives through residential communities developed along Lake Washington to downtown Bothell.
Dunn Gardens
This 2.5 mile side trip leads out to a beautifully landscaped Historic site.
Side trips along Mount Vernon to Seattle
There are no side trips along this tour leg.
Seattle to Olympia
This section of the Pacific Highway lies through Washington’s State Capital and some of its largest cities. Skirting the bays of lower Puget Sound, the tour passes through the State’s most densely populated and most highly industrialized area, yet woodland stretches and thinly settled fanning districts are met with just outside these centers.
This leg of the tour has 20 waypoints and 7 side trip tours
Key Waypoints along Seattle to Olympia
Seattle
The largest city of the Pacific Northwest, it lies along Elliott Bay, on the east shore of Puget Sound, 128... Visit
All waypoints on this leg
- Seattle
- Pike Place Public Market
- Pioneer Square
- International District
- SoDo
- South Park
- Des Moines
- Masonic Home
- Salt Water State Park
- Redondo
- Fife
- Eells Street Bridge
- Tacoma
- The Coffee Pot Restaurant
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord
- Nisqually
- Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
- Lacey
- Chehalis Western Trail
- Olympia ★
★ Mainstreet Community
Side trips along Seattle to Olympia
Georgetown
This 2 mile side trip leads out the brick commercial and industrial core of this community that developed around the Rainier Brewery.
Museum of Flight
This 3 mile side trip leads to the largest independent, non-profit air and space museum in the world.
Point Defiance Park
This 17 mile side trip leads out through downtown Tacoma to the picturesque Point Defiance Park, passing through several of Tacoma’s major historic districts
Steilacoom
This 12 mile side trip leads out through Fort Steilacoom to Steilacoom overlooking the Puget Sound and ferry access across Cormorant Passage to Ketron Island and to Anderson Island
Side trips along Seattle to Olympia
There are no side trips along this tour leg.
Olympia to Mary’s Corner
The tour follows the highway, lined with service stations, taverns, lunch counters, tourist camps, and billboards. It cuts through a prairie and winds around low hills before entering the Chehalis and Newaukum river valleys as it winds on to Mary’s Corner.
This leg of the tour has 12 waypoints and 7 side trip tours
Key Waypoints along Olympia to Mary’s Corner
Tumwater
Tumwater (Chinook, “waterfalls”) was the Puget Sound terminus of the northern extension of the Oregon Trail. Here, in 1845, the... Visit
Tenino
The city came into existence in the early 1870s, when a railroad under construction from Kalama to Tacoma located a... Visit
Centralia
Near the junction of the Chehalis and Skookumchuck Rivers, the city is often referred to as the “Hub City” of... Visit
Chehalis
Near the confluence of the Newaukum and Chehalis Rivers is Chehalis (“shifting sands”), the seat of Lewis County. The business... Visit
Mary’s Corner
A corner at the junction of the National Park Highway and old Pacific Highway. The corner is named for Mary... Visit
All waypoints on this leg
- Olympia ★
- Tumwater
- Bush Prairie
- Tenino
- Grand Mound
- Borst Park
- Centralia
- Southwest Washington Fairgrounds
- Burlington Northern Depot
- Chehalis ★
- Forest
- Mary’s Corner
★ Mainstreet Community
Side trips along Olympia to Mary’s Corner
Millersylvania State Park
This 7 mile side trip leads to the recreation amenities at Millersylvania State Park.
Raymond
This 104 mile side trip cuts west across coastal range between Grays River Divide (to south) and P and E Ridge to north, going up Chehalis River valley, across Pe Ell Prairie, and coming out on west side along Willapa...
Morton
This 60 mile side trip follows a scenic byway out along highway 508 along north fork of Tilton River through several small communities.
Side trips along Olympia to Mary’s Corner
There are no side trips along this tour leg.
Mary’s Corner to Vancouver
This tour follows an old stage route connecting Mary’s Corner with Vancouver, on the Columbia River. The tour follows the Chehalis, Newaukum, and Columbia rivers.
This leg of the tour has 21 waypoints and 10 side trip tours
Key Waypoints along Mary’s Corner to Vancouver
Mary’s Corner
A corner at the junction of the National Park Highway and old Pacific Highway. The corner is named for Mary... Visit
Toledo
It had at least three previous names; Plomondoe's Landing, Cowlitz Landing, and Warbassport. The present community occupies the site of... Visit
Kelso
The city has the brisk air of a small metropolis, compact with stores and business blocks. The industries of the... Visit
Kalama
Kalama (“pretty maiden”), is on a narrow flat at the confluence of the Columbia and Kalama Rivers. It began in... Visit
All waypoints on this leg
- Mary’s Corner
- Jackson Prairie
- Lewis and Clark State Park
- St. Francis Mission
- Toledo
- Smokey Valley
- Laughlin Round Barn
- Castle Rock
- Cowlitz River
- Ostrander
- Kelso
- Carrolls Bluff
- Kalama
- Martin Bluff
- Woodland
- La Center
- McCormick Barn
- Pioneer
- Southwest Washington Experiment Station
- Covington House
- Vancouver ★
★ Mainstreet Community
Side trips along Mary’s Corner to Vancouver
Winlock
This 11 mile side trip leads out to historically one of the most productive egg and poultry producing districts in the state.
Ryderwood
The 28 mile side trip follows the Cowlitz River west to the Still Water creek and then up the Still Water Creek valley, across Cougar Flat to Ryderwood, end of the road, up in the Cascades.
Eden Valley
The 24 mile side trip runs across Layton Prairie, east of Toledo, up into mountains crossing Eden Valley near the headwaters of Salmon Creek, much of the road was still under construction in 1930, connects with Scenic byway to south...
Mount Saint Helens
The 102 mile side trip follows the course of the Toutle River, the route ascends more steeply, winding about mountain faces high above the river, revealing panoramas of mountain and valley wilderness.
Columbia Heights Road
This 10 mile side trip loops out through a countryside of well-kept gardens and homes.
Three Rivers Golf Course
This 3 mile side trip leads out to the former Monticello Convention Site location, now near the site of the Three Rivers Golf Course.
Kalama Falls
The 17 mile side trip follows the shelf of the Kalama River through a gorge of sheer rock walls rising precipitously above the roadbed to the Kalama Falls fish hatchery.
Battle Ground
This 80 mile side trip leads out through Brush Prairie, the Chelatchie Prairie, to the east end of Lake Merwin.
Knapp Point
This 30 mile side trip leads out to Caterpillar Island and Knapp Point along the Columbia River.
Side trips along Mary’s Corner to Vancouver
There are no side trips along this tour leg.
This tour has 5 legs, 86 waypoints, 10 side trips, and covers 320 miles.
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