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Parkland

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Parkland

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Pacific Lutheran University

    Pacific Lutheran University is a private Lutheran university in Parkland, Washington, United States. It was founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants in 1890.

    1.3 km · private university in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pierce County Library System

    The Pierce County Library System is a library system serving the residents of Pierce County, Washington. The Pierce County Library System has 20 library locations serving 580,000 people in unincorporated Pierce County and 15 cities and towns which have annexed to the system for library service.

    3.6 km · public library system in Washington, United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Parkland

Airports
Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 34 km · Portland (PDX), 175 km · Victoria (YYJ), 182 km
Stations
McChord Field, 3.7 km
  • Portland → Parkland
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · $18–24
  • Spokane → Parkland
    381 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · $190–280
  • Boise → Parkland
    626 km · quickest by air, 7h 29m · $210–300
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Parkland

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Parkland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWashington State Ferries (WSF) operates the following between Pierce and King Counties in the South Sound: Point Defiance in Tacoma and Tahlequah in the southern tip of Vashon Island.
  • Get inThere are no additional ferries from Tacoma to Bremerton, Seattle or anywhere further north.
  • Get inAll Washington State ferries are for both vehicles and passengers.

From Wikivoyage: South Sound, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    110 km
  2. 02201 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    250 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    262 km
  5. 05
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    335 km

If you know how people move in Parkland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Parkland

Parkland is 51 km from Seattle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.