Tulip Town, Mt. Vernon, WA

Springtime in the Pacific Northwest mean tulips, and there's no better place to view tulips than in the Skagit Valley near Mt. Vernon. This year I made a visit to Tulip Town. It was a bit dreary and overcast  on the day of my tour, but the tulips - which were just starting to open up - brightened the landscape immensely. Click on the images to see the tulips better!

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival runs through the month of April and can be very crowded on weekends, so try to visit on a weekday if possible. Click HERE and HERE to view last year's tulips.

RoozenGaarde, WA

April is tulip mania in the Skagit Valley. If you're up in this part of Washington during the tulip season and you're as crazy about tulips as I am, then you have got to make a visit to RoozenGaarde where you can stroll through the tulip and daffodil fields and enjoy the immaculately-groomed formal gardens. 

Although I wasn't there when the tulip fields were all fully blooming, I was pleasantly surprised to find so much color. Come take a stroll through tuliplandia...

Luckily I was able to visit Roozengaarde on a weekday. I hear that the weekends can bring out huge crowds. Click HERE to view my visit from last year.