The facility itself sits inside an old airplane hangar. The museum features more than a dozen aircraft in all, including some that date back to the 1950s. Vintage planes and helicopters are on display at the Olympic Flight Museum, an underappreciated spot at the regional airport in Olympia. There’s also a pool hall with seven original Brunswick billiard tables and shuffleboard.
Menu items incorporate fresh seasonal ingredients from local farms, you know we love a good farm-to-table vibe. This old-timey pub in Centralia dates to 1908 and today is a great spot for burgers, pizza and beer. The depot itself has a small museum that tells the story of train history in the region. Dinner and holiday-themed train journeys are available. The journey rolls through forests and past farmsteads and country homes. A restored 1916 locomotive runs train cars 6.5 miles from the depot in Chehalis southwest to Milburn, then back. Get your best choo-choo sounds ready for a ride on the steam trains at this iconic destination. The visitor center in Castle Rock provides information about the history of the park. Forest Service, is open to the public year-round. The volcano exploded and turned the sky grey in 1980, leaving a horseshoe-shaped crater now partially filled by a lava dome and glacier. While most mountains in the region look like triangles, this one looks like an empty ice-cream cone. Helens National Volcanic Monument definitely is worth the visit.
It’s not exactly right off I-5, but Mount St. Fun fact: The refuge also is home to the most intact archaeological site on the lower Columbia. A 2-mile self-guided hiking trail offers great vantage points, especially in spring and fall when sandhill cranes migrate through the region. Waterfowl abounds at this 5,300-acre stretch along the Columbia River, making it a popular spot for birdwatchers and dads who like making duck noises. There’s even a contact-free, phone-based scavenger hunt to keep the kids occupied. The site’s “Garden of Awakening Orchids” is considered the most authentic Chinese garden outside of China. Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden is a great place to kick off the road trip: It’s peaceful, it’s beautiful and it’s small enough to see everything in an hour.
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Instead of doing the drive in three hours, take a full day (or more) to stop, linger and enjoy the journey. Even though there’s only 145 miles of concrete separating the two cities, driving the I-5 corridor provides the makings of an epic road trip. That’s why we’re laying out the perfect pit-stops on your next road trip from Portland to Seattle (or vice versa). Although PNW technically stands for ‘Pacific Northwest’, we’re thinking of changing it to ‘Perfect Next Wander.’ Okay, that was cheesy, but we really can’t get enough of the indie vibes, notorious foodie scene and the NATURE (it’s so beautiful it deserves the emphasis).
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