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Pacific Northwest
Seattle, Vancouver · 12 tours · GPS-triggered narration that plays automatically as you explore.
Seattle's revitalized waterfront, Vancouver's Stanley Park, and the wild coastline of the Pacific Northwest. Explore cities built on timber, salmon, and tech innovation, with rainforests and volcanoes as your backdrop.
12 tours in Pacific Northwest
Each tour triggers narration automatically based on your GPS location. Pick one and start exploring.
Seattle Waterfront to Pike Place
Walk along Seattle's revitalized waterfront to the legendary Pike Place Market. Hear the stories of the fish throwers, the original Starbucks, and the underground city hidden beneath your feet.
View tour details →Olympic Peninsula — Hurricane Ridge Drive
From sea level to 5,242 feet in 17 miles — the road that climbs from temperate rainforest to alpine meadows in one drive. Mountain goats, wildflower meadows, and on a clear day, a view that stretches from the Pacific to the Cascades.
View tour details →Vancouver Stanley Park Seawall Walk
Walk the seawall of Vancouver's Stanley Park, a 1,000-acre urban wilderness that sits at the edge of downtown. The 5.5-mile path loops past totem poles carved by Coast Salish artists, ancient Douglas firs, rocky beaches, and panoramic views of the North Shore mountains — all within sight of the glass towers of one of the world's most liveable cities.
View tour details →Portland — Pearl District to Waterfront Walk
From Powell's City of Books through the converted warehouses of the Pearl to the Willamette River waterfront — the city that keeps Portland weird, one food cart, brewpub, and independent bookshop at a time.
View tour details →Willamette Valley Wine Drive
Oregon's Willamette Valley produces some of the finest Pinot Noir outside Burgundy. This drive winds through the Dundee Hills, past century-old hazelnut orchards and family-owned vineyards, through the wine towns of Newberg, Dundee, and McMinnville — where the tasting rooms are unpretentious and the winemakers still pour their own.
View tour details →Olympic Peninsula Hurricane Ridge Drive
From sea level to 5,242 feet in 17 miles — the road that climbs from the temperate rainforest of the Elwha Valley to alpine meadows where mountain goats graze against a backdrop of glaciated peaks. On a clear day, the view stretches from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Mount Olympus and across to the Cascades. Wildflower meadows explode in July.
View tour details →San Juan Islands Friday Harbor Walk
Walk through Friday Harbor, the only incorporated town in the San Juan Islands — a cluster of 172 islands in the waters between Washington State and British Columbia. From the ferry landing to the Whale Museum to the shoreline where the United States and Britain nearly went to war over a dead pig, this 1.5-mile walk covers island history, marine science, and one of the most improbable border disputes in diplomatic history.
View tour details →Juneau Glacier Scenic Drive
Alaska's capital city has no road connection to the outside world — you arrive by sea or sky, and the 40 miles of road you do get pack in tidewater glaciers, temperate rainforest, bald eagles by the dozen, and the gold rush history that built this town wedged between mountains and the Gastineau Channel. From downtown's cruise ship docks to the face of Mendenhall Glacier, every mile drips with snowmelt and story.
View tour details →Seattle — Pike Place to Pioneer Square Walk
From the flying fish of Pike Place Market to the underground city of Pioneer Square — Seattle's heart in one walk. The original Starbucks, the gum wall, and the neighbourhood that rebuilt itself on top of its own ruins.
View tour details →Columbia River Gorge Waterfall Drive
Drive 40 miles along the Historic Columbia River Highway through the most concentrated collection of waterfalls in North America. The gorge was carved by the Columbia River and catastrophically reshaped by the Missoula Floods — the largest floods in geological history — which blasted through basalt cliffs to create the thousand-foot walls and plunging cascades you'll see today.
View tour details →Olympic Peninsula & Hurricane Ridge Drive
Drive 55 miles from the historic port town of Port Angeles up to the alpine meadows of Hurricane Ridge, with views of glacier-capped peaks, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Vancouver Island. This route climbs from sea level to 5,242 feet through temperate rainforest and subalpine wildflower meadows in one of the most ecologically diverse national parks in the world.
View tour details →Mount Rainier Paradise Road Drive
Drive into the heart of Mount Rainier National Park, ascending from the ancient forests of the Nisqually Valley to the wildflower meadows of Paradise at 5,400 feet. At 14,411 feet, Rainier is the tallest volcano in the Cascades and the most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States — a mountain so massive it creates its own weather and dominates the Seattle skyline from a hundred miles away.
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