Population: 55,605
Location: South Puget Sound
Drive Time from Seattle: 1 hour
Average High Temperature in December: 45°
Average Low Temperature in December: 33°
Calling Card
Though Olympia earned its reputation for live music back when Kurt Cobain was behind the mic and Sleater-Kinney was forming, it persists today with small but frequent shows, still advertised by paper fliers posted downtown. Olympia Funk Festival, nicknamed “Funk Off” (and organized by this author’s brother), fills downtown venues with heavy bass lines and psychedelic backdrops January 30–February 1.
Historical Record
While the manicured lawns and gardens of the Capitol Campus just southwest of downtown make for a good
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