Tacoma, WA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

It's hard to avoid passing through TACOMA on the main Seattle–Portland route, and passing through may be all you wish to do, given the city's bad reputation as a military-oriented industrial town with pervasive pollution – and a toxic brew of chemicals still lingering in Commencement Bay. In recent years, though, the massive Tacoma Dome has become a major concert venue ( www.tacomadome.org ), and the downtown historical district has slowly been renovated, improving it somewhat. The two-block-long Antique Row on Ninth Avenue and Broadway features some great Victorian buildings worth … more »