Take a Walk
Location: Hoquiam, Grays Harbor County.
Length: About 1.5 miles round trip.
Level of difficulty: Flat, paved road and boardwalk loop (no steps).
By Cathy McDonald | March 28, 2002
Discovery Park is the largest and justifiably one of the most popular parks in Seattle, its 534 acres encompassing seven miles of trails that offer good hiking any time of year.
By Karen Sykes | March 28, 2002
PORTLAND Bats are everywhere in this garden, if you take the time to find them.
They hover with stone wings unfurled over arching gateways and peer out from terra-cotta tiles, carved wings tucked under like so many tiny curlicues. They lie disguised in the delicate latticework of a whitewashed window, and masquerade as spade-shaped picture hooks, with bronzed bodies and pointed heads.
By Gillian Flaccus | March 28, 2002
There aren't too many museums with exhibits inspired by animated cartoons.
But the Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia, which doubled its space in a recent expansion, features a magnetic wall with moveable metal tubes, tunnels and chutes that designers thought resembled the pie-making machine in "Chicken Run."
The maze wall is part of the museum's new "Build It! Gallery," one of the best exhibits found at a Northwest children's museum.
By Stephanie Dunnewind | March 28, 2002
LA CONNER -- One day it's a sleepy little artsy tourist destination on the Swinomish Channel in the Skagit Valley. The next day, La Conner is the hub for one of the largest tulip festivals in the country, with more than 100,000 visitors during its 17-day run each April. And sometimes it can get a little crazy.
By Jeff Larsen | March 28, 2002
