If you love boats, you gotta love wooden boats. If you love wooden boats, you gotta love Port Townsend, Wash.

Located on a deepwater bay on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula, what was once was a thriving Indian village is now a thriving maritime village. The town’s prominent Victorian-seaport architecture and a forested, waterfront military base turned arts-oriented conference center also help inspire a lot of tourism. Adding to that is a local pulp mill that pumps a lot of money (and occasionally some aroma) into the economy, as well.

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