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Cities in this area include; Bellingham, WA, Mount
Vernon, WA, Everett , Lynnwood, Seattle, The Olympic Peninsula, Sequim,
Port Angeles,
Port Townsend, Forks, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Ocean Shores,
Westport, and the northern ocean beach areas
of Washington
State.
The areas in white on the map we consider northwest Washington. It is split into two areas by Puget Sound.
The area to the left is the Olympic Peninsula which is made up
mostly of Olympic National Park which takes up the whole center of the
peninsula.
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Interstate-5
There
is one main highway in Northwest Washington State,
it is Interstate-5 and in NW Washington it runs from the
Canadian Border to Seattle, on its way south
to Oregon and California. Interstate-5 cuts right through the most
populous areas of Washington
State.
US Highway-101
US-101
begins in Olympia, heads north along Hood Canal
then around the Olympic Peninsula and down the Washington Pacific
Coast. This 2-lane scenic Byway is a tourist’s
dream with a wide variety of possibilities for adventure. The highway encircles Olympic National
Park.
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US Highway 20
WA Highway 20 (WA-20), often called State Route 20
(SR-20), begins on the Olympic Peninsula at US-101 milepost 282, goes east
to Port Townsend, crosses the sound by State Ferry to Whidbey Island, goes
over a bridge at Deception Pass to the mainland, crosses over I-5 in the
Burlington area, and, in the summer, goes over the Cascade Mountains to
eastern Washington. This pass is
called the North Cross State
Highway. It is part of the North
Cascades Scenic Byway Loop Cascade Loop
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Everett Area – Interstate 5
and the Snohomish
County area
Seattle Area - The Seattle and King
County Area
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Pacific
Coast Scenic Byway
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US Highway 101
Olympic Peninsula – Highway 101 from Olympia around the Olympic Peninsula
and down the Pacific Coast to the Aberdeen / Hoquiam area.
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Scenic Byways
Mt. Baker Scenic Byway
(WA-542)
The Mt. Baker Scenic Byway
– See old growth forests east of Bellingham
North Cascades Scenic Byway
(WA-20) or SR-20
Cascade Loop
Mountain Loop
Scenic Byway
Mountain Loop
Pacific Ocean
Beaches
Ocean
Beaches – The beaches of the northern
portion of the Washington
Pacific Coast.
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