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Kale and Compass Guide
Kale & Compass is a lifestyle and travel blog dedicated to living sustainably and inspiring others to reduce their impact on the environment.
Be Bellingham Shopping Guide
Whether you’re hunting for bargains or looking for handcrafted wares or boutiques, Bellingham has many different places to shop. Head to Downtown Bellingham and the Historic Fairhaven District to find unique shops full of locally made items. Front Street in Lynden is also a hub for local shops and antique stores.
Lonely Planet
Imagine a slightly less gentrified slice of Portland, OR, broken off and towed 250 miles to the north. Welcome to laid-back Bellingham, a green, liberal and famously livable settlement that has a distinctly libertine, nothing-is-too-weird ethos. Mild in both manners and weather, the city is an unlikely alliance of espresso-sipping students, venerable retirees, and all-weather triathletes, with brewpubs on every corner.
Fodor's Travel
The fishing port and college community of Bellingham has steadily transformed itself from a rough-and-tumble blue-collar town to the arts, retirement, and pleasure-boating capital of Washington's northwest corner. Downtown abounds with cafés, microbreweries, specialty shops, and galleries, and the waterfront—dominated by lumber mills and shipyards in the early 1900s—is gradually morphing into a string of parks with connecting trails. College students and professors from Western Washington University make up a sizable part of the town's population and contribute to its laid-back intellectual climate. The lushly green bayfront, creeks meandering through town, and Lakes Whatcom and Padden attract wildlife like deer, raccoons, river otters, beavers, ducks, geese, herons, bald eagles, and the occasional cougar.