Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula has become a more popular tourism spot since the Twilight series made the town of Forks improbably famous. (Sample Google search suggestion: “Is Forks from Twilight a real place?”) But it’s still mostly a place you go to get away from the crowds and into a tent. For some visitors, most of the “dining” you’ll do here is eating food you cook on a fire you built yourself.
But if camping is only something you’d do if forced to by reality show producers, there’s still lots to enjoy on the peninsula. Port Townsend (the area’s top dining and shopping destination) is chock full of cute waterfront