What to do in Vancouver, WA

Activities, attractions and tours
Officers Row featuring heritage architecture and a house

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Esther Short Park which includes a park

Downtown Vancouver

Travelers come to Downtown Vancouver for its abundant dining options, and you can see top attractions like The Academy and Vancouver Farmers Market while you're in town.

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Salmon Creek

Salmon Creek is popular for its ample dining options, and you might make a stop by Salmon Creek Regional Park, a top place to visit in the area.

Salmon Creek
Nice little park in the middle of Vancouver, WA. The switchbacks up the hill, surrounded by tall trees will make you feel like you're a lot further from town. It was a nice, quiet place to stretch my dogs legs for a bit and eat my lunch from nearby Panera Bread.

Hazel Dell

Hazel Dell is well-liked for its restaurants. You can also take some time to explore sights in the surrounding area like Salmon Creek Regional Park and Vancouver Mall.

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Pleasant Valley

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While Pleasant Valley might not have many sights to explore, venturing just a little farther will lead you to top things to see and do like Salmon Creek Regional Park and RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater.

Pleasant Valley
Pearson Air Museum featuring interior views

Vancouver National Historic Reserve

You'll enjoy the beaches and restaurants in Vancouver National Historic Reserve. You might want to make time for a stop at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site or Waterfront Park.

Vancouver National Historic Reserve
Those of us who live in a certain neighborhood of the Lincoln district know that for one month every year we won't have to worry about turning on our porch lights. If the street lamps should fail, well, that's not really of any concern. Say the moon itself were to pop out of the sky and go flying into space. No big deal. Because for a glorious 30 days every winter, we're able to bask in the glow of a house lit bright enough to make artificial sunshine. A sight so startling, it causes commuters to back up traffic as they sit in their cars and gape. It wasn't always that way. A few years back, the charming old couple who lives in the place started to put out a few lights to decorate their home. The next year they added a few more, and the year after that -- again -- some more. At some point, however, they seem to have developed a kind of high tolerance for luminescence. And when that happened, the floodgates were open. What you see in these photos is the early December version of what, by Christmas day, will be a kind of multi-colored solar flare emanating from the front yard of their home. It can really be a beautiful thing to behold, as anyone who sees it for the first time can tell you. And those of us who live here have accepted with pride this red and gold meteor which appears in our midst during every gloomy Northwest December. Can you blame us? We may be the only block on earth entirely visible from space. #localgem

Central Park

When in Central Park, you can plan a visit to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and The Academy, some noteworthy sights in the nearby area.

Central Park
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Day trip destinations from Vancouver

St Maarten and St Martin featuring outdoor art

Portland

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Battle Ground

Camas

Camas

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Ridgefield

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Brush Prairie