The Skagit Valley is worth the drive on its own. Tulip fields in April, eagles on the river in January, ski slopes an hour east and island ferries an hour west — all of it within reach of the resort.
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Outdoor Recreation
Mount Baker sits about an hour and a half north-east and holds the world record for snowfall in a single season. It…
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Outdoor Recreation
Boats run out of Anacortes and the San Juans looking for orcas, humpbacks, minkes and greys, along with seals, porpoises and eagles…
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Festivals & Events
A relay from the top of Mount Baker down to Bellingham Bay — skiing, running, road and mountain biking, canoeing and kayaking,…
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Festivals & Events
For a few weeks each spring the fields around Mount Vernon turn solid colour, and the valley fills with people who have…
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Attractions
A dirt oval at Alger, five minutes up the road, and about as close as motorsport gets to the resort. Sprint cars…
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Arts & Culture
Bellingham, about twenty-five minutes north, carries most of the region’s museums and galleries — the Whatcom Museum spread across the modern Lightcatcher…
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Arts & Culture
Bellingham has the region’s grand old room in the Mount Baker Theatre, a 1927 vaudeville house still running touring music, comedy and…
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Day Trips
Cross Deception Pass — the bridge alone is worth the drive, two hundred feet above the water — and Whidbey opens up:…
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Getting Around
The Anacortes ferry terminal is roughly half an hour west, and from there Washington State Ferries run out to Lopez, Shaw, Orcas…
