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Steilacoom/DuPont would be my choice if I were in your shoes.

Always crazy to me that they look so close together but they’re ~50 miles apart.

Top of my list of trails to hike. I hear it’s a tough one!

Lakewood is very different depending on what part of the city you are in. The areas near the lakes towards the NW side of town are very nice and pretty quiet, whereas the the SE part of town near JBLM is one of the highest crime areas in greater Tacoma. YMMV.

Also keep in mind that the downtown/city center area of Tacoma is at the far northeast side of Tacoma, not actually in the center.

NF-23 is what I noticed as well!

Tacoma community college is solid and also very easy to transfer your credits to UW-Tacoma.

The entire mountain range from Northern California to southern British Columbia is called the Cascade Range.

Hello! WSU alum here. While I did not major in Comp Sci, lots of my friends did. They all have jobs in their field but they have pretty “average” jobs. No crazy FAANG positions but they are all happily employed. WSU computer science is textbook “decent.” You will learn good stuff and have a marketable degree after graduating, but it’s not a super duper impressive degree. University of Washington in comparison is much better but also much more competitive.

The only downside to WSU as a whole is that it is in a small town and might feel pretty remote to you if you are not used to that or expecting it. I loved living in Pullman but I know a lot of people who thought the town was too isolated. In my opinion WSU is a great school and Pullman is a great town. Highly recommend it but my opinion may be a little bias. Go Cougs!

Agree, but so is rural Washington.

The western half of Canada is very similar but way larger. Provincial parks in Canada feel very similar to our national parks.

Alaska

Maine

Northern California

Western Wyoming/western Montana

North Idaho

From google - Grange - (in the US) a farmers' association organized in 1867. The Grange sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying.

A lot of those towns on the Idaho side used to have large logging operations that have since dwindled so more stuff in Idaho although some of it is technically outside of the actually Palouse region. The Washington side has more generational farms so less buildings in general but also less that is abandoned and still standing. Good luck, would love to see the photos when you’re done!

From Pullman, drive west. Tons of stuff between Albion and La Crosse. If you head east, there is just as much if not more abandoned stuff between Moscow and Bovill on the Idaho side.