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A Short Drive Away:
- High Steel Bridge (47.9 miles)
- Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (55 miles)
- Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area (57.6 miles)
- Mount Rainier National Park (58.4 miles)
- Olympic National Park (60.8 miles)
- Ricksecker Point (64.1 miles)
- Artist Point (89.5 miles)
- Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (95.6 miles)
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