Travel Guide: Where to Stay and Play in Tacoma, Washington This Winter
The Buchanan Bunkhouse sleeps 12 and features a saltwater hot tub in an open-air A-frame structure.
Tacoma, Washington offers unique travel accommodations and adventure-filled activities for your winter getaway. Stay in a hut, treehouse or castle and then plan for days of exploring. Your itinerary will include train rides, ghost tours, beverage tastings, and more. Check out these exciting insider Tacoma travel tips courtesy of Travel Tacoma!
Mountain Magic
Mount Rainier
Where to Stay
Book a cottage near Mount Rainier for access to winter sports. The Wild Bird cottage has a pine wood interior with a cozy fireplace.
Catch snow-covered views of Mount Rainier, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens at a hut inspired by the hut-to-hut system in the Alps. It's a 4-5-mile backcountry hike to each hut.
Book a cottage near Mount Rainier for access to winter sports. The Wild Bird cottage has a pine wood interior with a cozy fireplace.
Where to Play
Enjoy a magical experience aboard the annual Polar Express Train Ride. Perfect for kids, the round-trip train ride is a 90-minute theatrical experience.
Explore Crystal Mountain's natural beauty and sample sips at Crystal Mountain Resort's Snowshoe & Sip Series.
Urban Tacoma
Enjoy s’mores in urban Tacoma at Puget Sound Pizza, Legendary Donuts or Camp Bar.
Where to Stay
Rest your head at Thornewood Castle, a 15th-century English manor that's rumored to be haunted. Fun fact: The manor was featured in Stephen King's film "Rose Red."
Where to Play
Explore downtown Tacoma with Pretty Gritty Tours. The many guided walking tour options range from antique row and sweet shops to a "Boos and Booze" ghost tour that ends at a local brewery.
Winter snacks aren't limited to hot cocoa and peppermint bark. Get a taste of s'mores:
Roast table-side s'mores at Camp Bar
Dig into s'mores pie at Puget Sound Pizza
Taste s'mores from Legendary Donuts
Puyallup Perfect
Enjoy handcrafted hard cider in Puyallup, Washington!
Where to Stay
Get the farm-friendly feel close to town when you stay at Cockrell Hard Ciders in Puyallup, steps away from their orchards and cider tasting room.
Where to Play
Tour the Meeker Mansion, which was built in 1890; visit in February for a Valentine's Day tea.
Puget Sound Treehouse
Gig Harbor, Washington
Where to Stay
Take in Puget Sound views at a waterfront treehouse in Gig Harbor, complete with kayaks and a hot tub. Available on Airbnb.
Where to Play
Bundle up and take to the water in a Venetian gondola. Gig Harbor Gondola can take up to five people on a cruise around the scenic harbor.
For more information and travel itinerary ideas, head to traveltacoma.com and follow @traveltacoma on Instagram!
[Top image courtesy of visit Tacoma]