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Washington “Must-See”
ワシントン州の簡単な紹介
Washington Map +
ワシントン州の地図等
Coulee Dam National Recreation Area1)
, northeast of Grand Coulee Dam
Mt. Rainer National Park1, 2),
Longmire Mt. Rainer
国立公園
North Cascades National Park1, 2),
Woolley North Cascades国立公園
Olympic National Park1, 2, 3),
Port Angeles Olympic国立公園
アラスカを除くアメリカ合衆国本土の最西端
The most western point in the continental U.S.: Cape Alava,
Washington in Olympic National Park
Seafair1), Seattle July-August
Seattle Center1, 3) Space
Needle (1962 Century 21 Exposition)
Northwest Folklife Festival3),
Seattle every Memorial Weekend
Pike Place Market3), Seattle
Sun Juan Islands3)
Washington State International Kite Festival3),
Long Beach, every August
See
our Kite Festival photos
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Brief History1)
Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean (1805)
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark |
U.S. and Great Britain put the 49th Parallel boundary
between Canada and Washington (1846) | Grand Coulee Dam opens (1942)
| Century 21 Exposition, (Space Needle, 1962, Seattle) | Expo’ 74 (1974,
Spokane) | Mt. St. Helens eruption (1980)
Famous People1)
Bing Crosby, Seattle, and more. Click
here for more info on Famous People in North
Carolina.
Washington | Seattle
| Spokane | Tacoma | Vancouver | Bellevue | Olympia
(Capital)
Largest Cities in Washington
Visiting & Recreation |
Tourism
Top 10 Attractions | Top
10 Destinations
ワシントン州の旅行ガイド
Events
Bumbershoot, Seattle on Labor Day weekend
Puyallup Fair, Puyallup
More Events, for example, chick out
this site
References
1) Inge N. Dobelis (Project Editor): America: land of Beauty and Splendor (New
York/Montreal: Reader’s Digest, 1992)
2) “Our National Parks - Celebrating America’s Nature Splendor”, Life
9 (2009) No. 7 August 21
3) Laura Sutherland with Family Travel Forum: “Amazing Places to Take Your
Kids” (Illinois: Publications International, Ltd., 2008)
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