A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Washington

Washington State Capitol

Olympia, WA

Olympia's 1928 capitol has the tallest masonry dome in North America — built entirely of stone, with no steel frame inside.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Vancouver, WA

A reconstructed 19th-century frontier fort and fur-trading post that anchored the Pacific Northwest before it was ever a state.

Mount Rainier National Park

Ashford, WA

An active volcano with twenty-five glaciers, visible from Seattle on a clear day.

Olympic National Park

Port Angeles, WA

Rainforest, glaciated peaks and seventy miles of wild Pacific coast in one park.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Seattle Unit

Seattle, WA

The Seattle unit of the park in Pioneer Square, telling the story of the 1897–98 stampede north.

Fort Nisqually Living History Museum

Tacoma, WA

A reconstructed 1830s Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Point Defiance Park, with two original buildings from the 1850s.

Museum of Flight

Seattle, WA

One of the largest air and space museums in the world, with the first jet Air Force One and a Concorde.

Boeing Future of Flight

Mukilteo, WA

The gallery and starting point for tours of Boeing's Everett factory, the largest building in the world by volume.

Washington State History Museum

Tacoma, WA

The state's history museum, next to Tacoma's restored Union Station, from the first peoples to the timber, rail and aircraft eras.

Pearson Air Museum

Vancouver, WA

An aviation museum at Pearson Field, one of the oldest operating airfields in the country.

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

Spokane, WA

A museum of the Inland Northwest and its Plateau tribes, beside the 1898 Campbell House mansion.

Space Needle

Seattle, WA

The 605-foot tower built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, with a rotating glass floor 500 feet up.

Pike Place Market

Seattle, WA

Opened in 1907, one of the oldest continuously operating public farmers markets in the United States.

Riverfront Park

Spokane, WA

The park built for Expo '74, when Spokane became the smallest city ever to host a World's Fair, with the 1909 Looff Carrousel.

Historic Davenport Hotel

Spokane, WA

A grand hotel opened in 1914 and restored in 2002, once among the most luxurious in the West.

Bing Crosby House Museum

Spokane, WA

The boyhood home of Bing Crosby at Gonzaga University, with memorabilia from his career.

Tahoma National Cemetery

Kent, WA

A national cemetery near Kent dedicated in 1997, serving veterans of western Washington, with views of Mount Rainier.

Puget Sound Navy Museum

Bremerton, WA

The Navy museum beside Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, covering ship-building and the sailors of the Pacific fleet.

USS Turner Joy

Bremerton, WA

A destroyer involved in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that served through the Vietnam War.

Naval Undersea Museum

Keyport, WA

The U.S. Navy's museum of undersea warfare and exploration, with torpedoes, submersibles and the deep-diving Trieste II.

Fort Spokane

Davenport, WA

A frontier Army post built in 1880 where the Spokane River meets the Columbia, part of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

Steptoe Battlefield

Rosalia, WA

The site of the May 1858 battle where a U.S. Army column under Lt. Col. Edward Steptoe was defeated and escaped by night.