A Visit to Seattle and the Snoqualmie Valley

My son and I recently took a trip to the Snoqualmie Valley to visit some of the locations where Twin Peaks was filmed.

One of the first places we visited was where the “Welcome to Twin Peaks” sign appears in the opening credits. The sign is long gone and what’s there now is just a road, a gravel shoulder, a nearly dried up river, ancient trees and Mount Si in the distance. It’s a bummer that the sign is gone, but I don’t think we needed the sign to tell us where we were.

We went to Washington looking for Twin Peaks, and we most certainly found it in the diner, the waterfall, the bridge, and the mountains…and especially in the trees. I think along the way, the trip stopped being about finding these places and more about just being somewhere unfamiliar together, surrounded by things much older and larger than either of us. There was nowhere else we needed or wanted to be.

The Snoqualmie Trading Co was a great place for souvenirs, but the best souvenir was the music he made during our downtime.

Notable locations:

• Bang Bang Bar (The Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn)
• Blue Diamond Motel (Mt. Si Motel)
• Double R Diner (Twede’s Cafe)
• Great Northern Hotel (Salish Lodge & Spa)
• Jack Rabbit’s Palace Coordinates (Located at the Weeks Falls Trail in Olallie State Park)
• Laura’s Log (Kiana Lodge)
• Location of where the “Welcome to Twin Peaks Sign” used to be
• Mount Si
• Ronette’s Bridge (Reinig Bridge)
• Snoqualmie Falls (Lower)
• Snoqualmie Falls (Upper)
• Twin Peak’s Sheriff Department (Dirt Fish Rally School)
• Twin Peaks High School (Mount Si High School)

The owls are not what they seem.