A free, gleefully bizarre curio shop on the Long Beach boardwalk whose star is Jake the Alligator Man, a mummified half-man-half-gator drawing the curious since 1967, with shrunken heads and penny machines.
Road trips · Washington
Washington road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Washington — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Washington
World Cup 2026
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Washington has one this June. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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Perched on basalt cliffs above the Columbia River near Vantage, one of the few places on earth where you can walk a trail past 15-million-year-old logs turned to stone, right off I-90.
A clifftop county park west of Port Angeles where low tide unveils some of the richest tide pools in the Northwest, framed by sea stacks and the blue sweep of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
In the old mining town of Republic in the far northeast, the only public fossil dig in Washington hands you tools to split 50-million-year-old shale and keep up to three of your finds.
A beloved family-run mercantile and bakery tucked just off the North Cascades Highway at the head of the Methow Valley, where fresh pastries fuel travelers before or after the high mountain passes.
A former dairy barn in tiny Uniontown wrapped in a fence of over 1,000 rusted wagon wheels, now a free working artist studio and gallery — the perfect Palouse pull-off in the southeast wheat country.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Washington on the calendar.
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