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paulj
Oct 24, 2016Explorer II
Your destination is a north Seattle suburb - so coming via I5 or 405 gives a full taste of the urban freeway, starting in Olympia. It would be more scenic to stay on US101 along Hood Canal, and take the floating bridge and ferry (Kingston/Edmonds). Or you could stay east on Us97, and cross the mountains on US2.
I5 has some mountains in southern Oregon (esp. the state line), and the rest is broad valley of farms and towns and cities. There are side trips into the Oregon Cascades, and Mt St Helens and Rainier in Washington.
US97 in open pine forest in the south, drier range land in northern Oregon, with some modest mountain passes in southern Washington. I84 along the Columbia River is the flattest way through the Cascades. I90 is the main freeway route across.
I5 has some mountains in southern Oregon (esp. the state line), and the rest is broad valley of farms and towns and cities. There are side trips into the Oregon Cascades, and Mt St Helens and Rainier in Washington.
US97 in open pine forest in the south, drier range land in northern Oregon, with some modest mountain passes in southern Washington. I84 along the Columbia River is the flattest way through the Cascades. I90 is the main freeway route across.
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