Pick Your Scenic Drive
Scenic Drives
Name of Drive
Description
Highlights
Where It Begins and Ends
Length In Miles
Website
Mt Baker Highway
Scenic Cascade range
Mt Shuksan/Picture Lake
St Rte 542 beginning in Bellingham and ending in Artist Point
58
800/487-2032
Mather Memorial Parkway(or Chinook Scenic Byway)
classic Cascades drive
spectacular views of Mt Rainer
EnumClaw to Naches on St Rte 410
85
360/825-7666
Olympic Loop
from snow capped Olympic mountains to temporate rainforest
Dungeness Spit
Potlatch around Olympic National Park To Hoquiam on Grays Harbour
250
206/452-0330
Coastal Route 112
some of most impressive vistas in America
see northwesternmost point in lower 48
just west of Port Angeles to Neah Bay and Cape Flattery
62
360/645-2711
Columbia River Gorge Road
America’s first scenic highway and a national historic landmark
awesome river gorge
Vancouver to Maryhill
140
503/386-2333
Highway 101
beautiful Pacific Coast drive
coastal cliffs and rugged beaches
Olympia Wa to Brooklings OR
443
888/628-2101
Scenic Route 20
Drive through North Cascades National Park
lake shannon
skagit river
Port Townsend to Okanogan
221
509/996-4003
Palouse Scenic Byway
from desert to alpine forests, lakes and waterfalls
palouse falls state park
steptoe butte
begins at Hooper through Colfax and Palouse to Pullman
208
800/365-6948
Chuckanut Drive
narrow twisting road
cliffs overlooking Puget Sound
from south of Bellingham to Burlington
11
360/734-1330
Cascade Loop Scenic Byway
440 mile loop from Puget Sound
North Cascades National Park
from Mukilteo north of Seattle to Leavenworth and back
440
877/260-2731