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Washington Tourist AttractionsGuide to roadside oddities and other weird, strange and unusual attractions in Washington state.
Sleep in a windmill.
Sleep in a teepee. There’s four nights of cool Washington tourist attractions already! Oh, did I forget to mention you can sleep in a covered wagon, too?
Lots of stairs.
A huge 360 degree view of the forest and mountains. A couple of suspension bridges. And tree house lodgings 50 feet up in the air.
Photo courtesy Cedar Creek Treehouse.
There’s something for everyone at Marsh’s Free Museum. It’s full of weird funky stuff! Positively overflowing with weird… A two-headed calf or an eight-legged lamb? How about some working antique music machines? Or maybe a bunch of glass floats? A Fortune Telling Machine…
Or..Hey! I know…How about a… Don’t get to see one of those just every day! Marsh’s Free Museum is at 409 S. Pacific Ave, Long Beach, Washington. Phone: (360) 642-2188
Take a trip to Holland. It's a Washington tourist attraction! Lynden is a town of about 10,000 in the northwestern corner of Washington. Around 1900, the Dutch started arriving.
There are all sorts of Dutch-influenced businesses around town. The most eye-catching - cuz it’s 72 feet tall – is the Dutch Village Inn.
And YES!!! There are rooms in the windmill.
Sit at the window and watch the blades go by…
Photo courtesy Lynden.org.
Dutch Village Inn, 655 Front St. # 7, Lynden, WA. Phone: (360) 354-4440
In 1855, Willie Kiel died at nineteen, just before the religious commune he was with was ready to head out on the Oregon Trail. He had wanted sobadly to lead the expedition west. His father came up with the solution. He stuck Willie in a lead-lined coffin and poured in a ton of whiskey. This preserved (or if you’d rather say pickled) the body. The coffin was loaded into the lead wagon and away the settlers went – lead by a dead guy. They got to eastern Washington and buried Willie on a hill. And thus, Willie on a hill, became a Washington tourist attraction. The grave site is along State Rt.6, Menlo, Washington. There’s a marker with a pull-off. The grave is on the hill behind it.
But how can you choose which one to stay in?
It’s going to be hard! Cabooses are so cool. And when you can stay in one overnight?????
But, really, it’s gonna be hard to choose!
The Casey Jones?
The Orient Express?
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The Circus Caboose?
The Western Caboose?
And after your overnight caboose experience, it’s time to head for another train car – the Silver Eagle. It’s a restored 1937 Zephyr private dining car where you get a multi-course gourmet breakfast served on white linen tablecloths.
Red Caboose Getaway is at the corner of West Sequim Bay Road and Old Coyote Way. Address: 24 Old Coyote Way, Sequim, Washington.
And take a ferry to get there! The Washington State Ferry system has a couple of ferries that go to Vashon Island. They leave from the Fauntleroy Ferry dock in West Seattle at 4829 SW Barton, the Point Defiance Ferry dock at 5810 North Pearl Street in Tacoma, and the Southworth dock at 11564 SE State Highway 160, Southworth, WA. There’s also a passenger only ferry from downtown Seattle at 801 Alaskan Way Pier 50. For your overnight stay in a teepee or a covered wagon on Vashon Island, the AYH Ranch Hostel is at 12119 SW Cove Road, Vashon Island, WA Phone: (206) 463-2592
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