Interested in learning a new water sport? Stand-Up Paddleboarding by Alki Kayak Tours will put a smile on your face. You don't have to be an athlete to enjoy the fine art of paddleboarding and the thirty-minute trip to Seattle is well worth the paddle action.
Take a different path for a night of entertainment and head over to the Emerald Queen Casino & Hotel in Tacoma. Sure there's plenty of gambling to be had but the real fun begins when you get your ticket to live musical entertainment to see greats like Vince Gill and the Commodores.
Travel back to the Victorian era at the Victorian Heritage Days celebration. The festival celebrates the heritage of the Port Townsend Historic District being one of only three ports on the entire coast of the United States. Festival goers tour the open houses, see Victorian crafts and watch a Victorian fashion show.
Welcome to the birthplace of Tacoma at the Job Carr Cabin Museum. Step inside a replication of the log cabin home of Job Carr, the first permanent non-native settler of what is now Tacoma, and explore his vision to locate the Northern Pacific Railroad on Commencement Bay.