Destination of the Month
new, notable or just plain cool travel destinations and/or off-the-beaten-path
locations
Seabrook, Wash.
No one would mistake our beaches for Santa Cruz or even Cannon Beach, but August visitors to the Pacific should discover sunshine, warm sand and even, heartiness assumed, palatable water. Since the very words “Washington beach holiday” go shoes in hand with suspended belief, why not add a movie set to the script. Seabrook is an admittedly contrived beach community, but so was Provincetown at some point. Let’s toss our Truman Show cynicism away and embrace this cluster of Victorian cottages, replete with sweeping verandas, outdoor fire pits and Crescent Park where, like the fat-tire touring bikes, toys lay strewn about for anyone’s use.
“I can’t think of the last time I could sit on a porch and watch my kids play across the street,” Seattleite Elizabeth Kiyasu told me. “And in a park no less.”
Seabrook was the vision, not of Disney, but of Northwest native Casey Roloff, who thoroughly embraced the "New Town” ethos, replacing carports with porches, driveways with paths. Unlike Seaside, the much lampooned Robert Davis–designed Florida community that launched the New Town movement, Roloff has built Seabrook to age gracefully.
I was particularly intrigued by a set of eight simple bungalows orbiting a small green area at the east end of the property. These cottages conjure instant visions of social gathering spaces—the ideal place for family reunions, birthday weekends and friend getaways.
Gingerbread houses? A too-perfect village? Who cares? This is summer, there’s sunshine and we’re feeling fine.
...Now if someone would please yell “Action!” Our all-too-brief summer show can begin. —By Crai S. Bower
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