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Destination
Washington
You can explore a little bit of everything in the state of Washington. Giving you a variety of mountains, rainforests, and rocky shores, Washington has an amazing diverse climate and geography.
Geographically being so diverse, it’s easy to divide the state into two separate parts with the Cascade Mountains dividing both parts. The northeast is dry like Montana, while the west has a rainy ocean climate. You can experience it all in Washington.
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Planning a trip to Washington
Washington holds three national parks and they divide the state. Olympic is on the peninsula in the west, North Cascades along the Canadian border, and Mount Rainier south-east of Seattle — all within a few hours of one airport.
Olympic is really three parks in one boundary: temperate rainforest on the west side, a wild and undeveloped Pacific coastline, and glaciated mountains in the middle at Hurricane Ridge. There is no road across it, so seeing all three means driving around the outside.
The rain shadow is worth understanding before booking. The west side of the peninsula is one of the wettest places in the contiguous United States; towns forty miles east of it are among the driest on the coast.
The mountain season is short. Hurricane Ridge, the Rainier high country and the North Cascades passes hold snow into July, and the wildflower weeks that follow are the reason to be there in late July and August.