Washington Waterfront Homes for Sale

Washington

Washington State offers rugged coastline, deserts, forests, mountains, volcanoes, and hundreds of coastal islands to explore. The Cascade Mountains divide the state, with the damp forested coastal areas to the west, and pine forests, deserts and irrigated farmland of the Columbia River Plateau to the east. It is the adjacent to Canada.

The 2010 United States Census recorded the State's population at 6,724,540. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, industry along the Puget Sound.  Washington's climate varies greatly from west to east. An Oceanic climate (also called "west coast marine climate") predominates in western Washington, and a much drier climate prevails east of the Cascade Range.

The state's nickname "Evergreen" was proposed in 1890 by Charles T. Conover of Seattle. The name proved popular as the forests were full of evergreen trees and the abundance of rain keeps the shrubbery and grasses green throughout the year.

Washington State is an aquatic wonderland of coastal waters, tide pools, saltwater inlets, glacier-fed rivers, low country and alpine lakes, reservoirs, protected wetlands and estuaries teeming with fish, birds and all sorts of watchable wildlife. It is also home to thousands of waterfalls, including some as dramatic and spectacular as Palouse Falls and Snoqualmie Falls. Washington has over 1,000 dams, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, and water storage.

Washington's Pacific coast offers a wealth of beaches; some you can drive on (Long Beach) and some are so wild you can't get a car within 20 miles of them (stretches of protected shoreline in Olympic National Park). Even most Washingtonians don't know that the state's 170 miles of Pacific coast is only a small fraction of its total saltwater coastline. When you take into account Washington's numerous bays and tidal inlets, the perimeters of its coastal islands, the San Juan Islands, and the islands of Puget Sound, and then add in the shorelines of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet, Hood Canal and Puget Sound, Washington has an astounding 3,036 miles of saltwater coastline. If you stretched out the States' meandering coastline into one straight line, it would more than cover the distance from Seattle to Washington, D.C.

Washington is also home to many beautiful rivers, none more majestic than the mighty Columbia, the largest river in the Pacific Northwest and the largest hydroelectric power-producing river in North America. Along the way, it flows through the Grand Coulee Dam, which is the largest single producer of hydroelectricity in the United States. The Columbia River Gorge is famous for its vast panoramas of spectacularly dramatic scenery. Its strong winds also make it a world-famous windsurfing destination.

Many of Washington's waters, mountains and forests are protected by the State's three National Parks, some 120 State parks, numerous wilderness areas, recreation areas and preserves. It's no surprise then that Washington is a haven for watchable wildlife: whales and other sea mammals, migratory and native birds, deer, bears, cougars, otters, foxes and much more.

 

 
$4,250,000
LiveTripleCreekFarm.com

Olympia, Thurston County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

200.00 AC
3 BR
2.5 BA
4323 SQ FT
 
$2,895,000
2921LemonsBeach.com

University Place, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.36 AC
4 BR
3 BA
4102 SQ FT
 
$7,775,000
The Stone House Estate

North Bend, King County, Washington

Bob Perrell , Coldwell Banker Bain

61.00 AC
5 BR
4.75 BA
9960 SQ FT
 
$1,295,000

SOLD

Spencer Lake Waterfront

Shelton, Mason County, Washington

Keith Fuller , Windermere/Himlie Inc

0.72 AC
3 BR
3 BA
3216 SQ FT
 
$1,000,000

SOLD

SteilacoomViewHome.com

Steilacoom, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.19 AC
4 BR
2.5 BA
2414 SQ FT
 
$1,895,000

SOLD

63Seashore.com

Sequim, Clallam County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

5.01 AC
3 BR
3.5 BA
3656 SQ FT
 
$1,447,000

SOLD

OnLakeSteilacoom.com

Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.37 AC
3 BR
3 BA
3301 SQ FT
 
$2,850,000

SOLD

Honeymoon Bay Living

Fox Island, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.95 AC
4 BR
4.5 BA
5126 SQ FT
 
$3,399,000

SOLD

The ultimate experience nestled in an Estate Setting with 180 - degree views

Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.30 AC
3 BR
2.75 BA
5238 SQ FT
 
$1,495,000

SOLD

Gravelly Lake Living

Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington

Michael Morrison , Morrison House Sotheby's International Realty

0.69 AC
4 BR
2 BA
2408 SQ FT

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