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Places worth the detour in Washington

Detourmap lists 258 places in Washington, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Mount St. Helens. 226 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature229 Archaeological29
Places
258
Oldest
Mount Rainier National Park 1899
Little known
226 of 258
Share of United States
6%

Washington 258

The 120 best known of 258. The other 138 are on the map and on the United States pages.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Washington?

Mount St. Helens. Volcano in Washington state. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Washington?

258: 229 nature & landscapes and 29 archaeological & historic sites. 226 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Washington?

Mount Rainier National Park, dated to 1899. 22 of the 258 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Washington here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Washington if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Washington is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.