Hotels for Lodging in Washington

Lodgingwithall Washington destination guide is where you can make hotel reservations and find information and tips on travel to Washington. This lodging guide will help our readers find the perfect places to stay for lodging accommodations in Washington. Whether you are traveling with your family on a leisure holiday vacation or visiting on a corporate business trip, our Washington lodging guide will help you find a hotel room that suits your specific needs. This is where you can find available luxury five star Washington resorts, comfortable four star Washington hotels, clean three star Washington lodges, convenient two star Washington inns, budget one star Washington motels, the best Washington vacation rentals, and other Washington accomodations.

The Stillaguamish, Steilacoom and Hoh, Puyallup, Tulalip and La Push, the Duckabush, the Dosewallips and the Queets, the Skookumchuck, the Sol Duc and the Pysht-all these are Washington State towns and rivers. There are many more like them, named by Native Americans.

Ruggedly handsome Washington State is like a bank in which nature has deposited some of her greatest resources. In addition to dramatic mountain ranges, expansive forests, and inviting harbors, it is a cornerstone of American hydroelectric technology. Here are the majestic spectacles of mighty Mount Rainier-revered as a god by the Native Americans-and the Olympic Peninsula, where one of the wettest and one of the driest parts of the country are only a mountain away from each other; also here is Puget Sound, a giant inland sea where 2,000 miles of shoreline bend into jewel-like bays.

Although British and Spanish navigators were the first Europeans to explore Washington's serrated shoreline, the first major discoveries were made in 1792, when an American, Captain Robert Gray, gave his name to Grays Harbor and the name of his ship, Columbia, to the great river. An Englishman, Captain George Vancouver, explored and named Puget Sound and christened Mount Baker and Mount Rainier, which he could see far inland. Fort Vancouver was the keystone of the British fur industry, dominating a Northwest empire. After conflicting US and British claims were resolved, Americans surged into this area by ship and wagon train.

Part of the Oregon Territory until separated in 1853, the state's eastern boundary was established in 1863, when Idaho became a territory. Entering the last decade of the 19th century as a state of the Union, Washington found itself no longer America's last territorial frontier. Civilization has not dissipated Washington's natural wealth. On the contrary, after more than a century of logging operations, Washington retains 24 million acres of superb forests, and miracles of modern engineering have almost completely erased the wastelands through which the wagon trains of the pioneers passed on their way to the sea.

The mighty but capricious Columbia River meanders through the heart of northeast and central Washington, then runs for 300 miles along the Oregon-Washington border. Through a series of dams and the Grand Coulee Reclamation Project, the energies of the Columbia have been harnessed and converted into what is presently one of the world's great sources of water power. Irrigation and a vast supply of inexpensive power gave a tremendous push to Washington's economy, sparking new industries and making possible the state's production of huge crops of grains, vegetables, and fruit.

Central Washington is the apple barrel of the country; dairying is a big industry in the western valleys. Forestry and wood products as well as the production of paper and allied products are of major importance in the western and northern sections of the state; one-third of the state is covered by commercial forests. In recent years, Washington wines have enjoyed great popularity around the nation.

Since 1965, more than 25 percent of Washington's total manufacturing effort has been devoted to the production of transportation equipment, of which a large portion is involved in commercial jet aircraft. Along Puget Sound, industry means canning plants, lumber mills, and pulp and paper plants; but even here there is a new economic dimension: petroleum refineries of four major companies have a daily capacity of 366,500 barrels of crude oil and gasoline; biotechnology and software development are growing industries. Tourism is the state's fourth largest industry, amounting to more than $8.8 billion a year.

Water-related activities, hiking, riding, various other sports, picnicking, and visitor centers, as well as camping, are available in many of Washington's state parks. The 248,882 acres owned or managed by the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission provide unusually good camping and trailer facilities at most locations. Pets are allowed on leash only. With 10,000 miles of bay and Pacific shoreline, 8,000 lakes, and rivers that stretch from Oregon to Canada, Washington provides something for every angler's whim. Fish hatcheries dot the state, stocking nature's waterways and those artificially created by irrigation and navigation dams. If you like salmon and steelhead, Washington is the state to try your luck.

Washington Lodging

Find Resorts, Hotels, Motels, Inns & Lodges

Washington Posters, Photos, and Artwork

Find Washington Lodging Hotels by City: