Skagit Valley — Attraction in Sedro-Woolley

Around 1883, George Gibbs, an immigrant from England moved to Orcas Island, where he began to grow apples and hazelnuts. Nine years later, he purchased five dollars' worth of flower bulbs to grow, and when he dug them up a couple years later and saw how they had multiplied, realized the potential for bulb-growing in the Puget Sound region. He contacted Dutch growers in Holland to learn about the business, only to find the Dutch to be highly secretive about their commercial practices. However, when he shipped off a few a bulbs to Holland, the impressed Dutch growers traveled to Orcas Island to see for themselves how tulips could grow...

You have to go to "Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Headquarters" and see their website, where they have a festival (this year it was from April 1st - 30th), but they are open year round. It's like the Cherry Blossom Festivals. You have to time the blooming. I hope that helps anyone looking for these beautiful places or even saw them on their Windows Spotlight and said, "Wow! I want to go there!" Then, searched on maps, or spontaneously drove, and found disappointment. Here's to a little mix of spontaneity...

We had been here last year for the tulip festival and it is such a beautiful farm full of tulips. It gets crowded if you go late. We left early morning 6 am and reached here by 8 am still there were too many people standing in queue to get in. Parking was a problem that early morning also. But if you get a chance should visit this farm atleast once it is...