Tacoma, WA

You'll literally be blown way at the Tacoma Museum of Glass. You'll tour hot glass and cool art at a museum on a mission to showcase the world's finest molten masterpieces. Discover a museum that is architecturally stunning with interesting, beautiful exhibits and the coolest modern Museum Café in the city.

Address: 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA 98402 - MAP
Phone: (253) 284-4750
Web: www.museumofglass.org

Tacoma Farmers Market 902 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 272-7077 www.tacomafarmersmarket.com The Tacoma Farmers Market invites you to tour three farm fresh market delights, each stocked with local farm goodies, artesian wares and live music. The Broadway Market exhibits the city's original European style Farmers Marketplace, the 6th Avenue Market is a small neighborhood market, and the South Tacoma Market is only open on Sundays.

Address: 902 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402 - MAP
Phone: (253) 272-7077
Web: www.tacomafarmersmarket.com

Travel back in time on a tour of the Washington State History Society. Enter into a 106,000-square-foot museum that is an architectural masterpiece filled with interactive exhibits, theatrical story telling, high tech displays and dramatic artifacts that will amuse and educate you about the state's important citizens and historical events.

Address: 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 - MAP
Phone: (253) 272-9747
Web: www.wshs.org

It's coming up roses at the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Tacoma. Meander along the pathways of the historic glass conservatory with its twinkling central glass dome made up of three thousand panes of glass, allowing gleaming sunshine to beam down on thousands of colorful blooms and plants.

Address: 316 South G Street, Tacoma, WA 98405 - MAP
Phone: (253) 591-5330
Web: www.metroparkstacoma.org

Ride a camel at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium when you tour the only zoo in the great Northwest to offer camel rides. If that's not awesome enough, how about a friendly high five with a polar bear, getting nose to nose with giraffes and going down under to see all kinds of sea creatures? Don't miss out on a tour of this zoological park.

Address: 5400 North Pearl Street, Tacoma, WA 98407 - MAP
Phone: (253) 591-5337
Web: www.pdza.org