Bellingham, WA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

BELLINGHAM – a happy blend of industry, Victorian architecture and college-town liveliness – runs ten miles along a broad curve of Bellingham Bay, 85 miles north of Seattle and just eighteen miles south of the Canadian border. Its notoriety is largely due to its being the southern terminus of the Alaska Marine Highway . The ferries sail from the Cruise Terminal on the edge of the brick-and-sandstone Fairhaven district – three miles south of downtown (I-5 exit 250) – which, with its hip bookstores, cafés and clothing stores, is easily Bellingham's most appealing area. In … more »