Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

Get in the mood for some music and head over to the Wintergrass Festival in Tacoma. Hit the greens with thousands of festival goers to listen to family friendly Bluegrass music. These pick ‘n' concerts break out on four stages for four days of the best bluegrass, jazz, old timey and other great acoustic string music.

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.

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.