Fodor's Pacific Northwest : Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and the Best of Oregon and Washington

By Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

Book Overview

Whether you want to visit a stunning national park, go wine-tasting in Oregon, or experience the culture of Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Pacific Northwest are here to help! Fodor's Pacific Northwest guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.

This new edition travel guide has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Fodor's Pacific Northwest travel guide includes:

AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do

MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time

MORE THAN 30 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidently

COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!

HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more

PHOTO-FILLED "BEST OF" FEATURES on "The 10 Best Islands," "The Best Places for Book Lovers," "The Best Hikes," and more

TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money

HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and more

SPECIAL FEATURES on "What to Watch and Read Before You Visit" and "What to Eat and Drink."

LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems

UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Willamette Valley, Mt. Hood, Bend, Mt. St. Helens, San Juan Islands, Olympic National Park, Mt. Rainer, Victoria, and more.

Planning on visiting Portland or Seattle? Check out Fodor's Inside Portland and Fodor's Seattle.

*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.

ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640973044
• ISBN13: 9781640973046
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Fodor's Travel
• Length: 656 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great travel ideas for Pacific Northwest

Haven't taken the trip yet, but this travel guide has given me some great ideas and tips for when I am ready for the trip. Things are clear and the maps are great. Makes it easy for all the information to be in the same place so you can mark the pages you like and handy enough to carry around with you. Ready to take the trip now!

Great Guide To The Pacific Northwest

FODOR'S PACIFIC NORTHWEST, 17TH EDITION is a great guide to Oregon, Washington, and the Canadian province of British Columbia, with extensive sections on Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and Vancouver, as well as a full guide to all of the national parks and other outdoor activities on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. The sections on major cities (Portland, Eugene, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver) offer full coverage of the best attractions, dining, nightlife, shopping, and lodging in those areas. The latter includes University Village and Easy Street Records in Seattle, Clackamas Town Center Mall, Lloyd Center Mall, and Washington Square Mall in Portland, and the Tacoma Mall in Tacoma. This is a wonderful book which you shouldn't pass up.

Great recommendations!

We used this book on a 10 day trip to Oregon and Washington and had a great experience. Any of the Fodor's recommendations we tried were excellent, including scenic highways to take, restaurants to try, and hotels to stay in on the coast. We had a great trip and much of it can be attributed to the excellent tips in this book. It's important to check costs of entry to different places before going, though, because the book can't stay updated with the changes these places make. We found a few places where prices have changed since it was published.

A Great Guidebook

I recently bought this book for a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Whistler. I found this guide to be extremely helpful both before and during my travels. I was impressed that I was able to find information other than the typical, popular tourist attractions in the main parts of each city. I also liked that they highlighted the "bests" of each city, as well as reccommended activities based on your length of stay. I was slightly dissappointed with the lack of information in the "Whistler, BC" and the quality of the maps (only in Black and White, and only a few neighborhoods for each city.) I think these shortcomings are minor, and would highly reccommend it.

very thorough and helpful

i bought this book along with fodor's guide to b and b's in the pacific northwest. this guide is a good one, both for residents who haven't had time to really see the area and for tourists. its the only one of the guidebooks that i browsed that has accurate information on doing a circle tour of the olympic peninsula. and it has a section that recommends itineraries for one, three, and seven days.