Tacoma’s Puget Creek Natural Area

Veronica and I found ourselves not traveling for once on a recent weekend so we decided to find a park to visit in town. The Puget Creek Natural Area is a gulch in North Tacoma, running from near Proctor Street to the waterfront and Ruston Way. There is a playground near the separate Puget Park…

Browns Point Lighthouse Park

While enjoying a recent Saturday off, we decided to venture to a part of Tacoma we’ve never been to – Northeast Tacoma. I’d long seen the lighthouse at Browns Point from the Ruston Way area of Tacoma – which is across Commencement Bay. It is not an attractive lighthouse. In fact, it is just an…