Tacoma
Tacoma is a city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.
Tacoma is a city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Puget Sound roughly 30 miles (48 km) from Seattle and Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-most populous city in the state with a population of 219,346 at the 2020 census. Tacoma is the economic and cultural center of the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million.
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Getting to Tacoma
- Airports
- Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 25 km · Victoria (YYJ), 172 km · Portland (PDX), 185 km
- Portland → Tacoma193 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · $18–25
- Spokane → Tacoma380 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · $180–270
- Boise → Tacoma633 km · quickest by air, 7h 2m · $200–290
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tacoma
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 Tacoma. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inN Pearl St connects the Washington State Ferry from Vashon Island to SR-16.
- Go nextEatonville, to the southeast, has the Northwest Trek, a park that is home to more than 200 North American animals, and the Mt.
From Wikivoyage: Tacoma, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tacoma
Tacoma is 41 km from Seattle, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.