Vote for your favorite PNW thing for a chance to win!
The stuff that makes the PNW the PNW is going head-to-head, and YOU can help decide what is crowned as the Pacific Northwestiest of them all. Will it be ubiquitous coffee shops or hiking? Pickleball or shellfish obsession?
Make your picks and watch the bracket each week. Every time you vote, you’ll be entered to win one of four prizes worth more than $1,500 in total!
Prizes
Week 1
Package of four Club Level Mariners tickets
Week 2
Package of two Seattle Symphony tickets and PCC gift basket
Week 3
Home Chef gift card and private tour for up to five people at Pacific Seas Aquarium
GRAND PRIZE
3-day/2-night Cabana van trip
Meet the Contestants
Sasquatch
The mythical ‘squatch is elusive in the wild… but also everywhere you look: TV and movies, the music festival, bumper stickers, coffee stands and SO much more.
Socks with Sandals
The quintessential PNW fashion, for better or worse. Proper styling dictates a pairing of stark-white, calf-height socks with strappy sport sandals and shorts.
Cream Cheese on Hot Dogs
This game-day favorite has become signature Washington cuisine. Outsiders may question our tastebuds - until they try it!
Pickleball
Invented on Bainbridge Island in 1965, and named the official sport of Washington in 2022. Also, the only sport that allows you to Dink into the Kitchen.
Hiking
Combine walking with uneven terrain, and boom, you have the PNW’s favorite activity. Dressing like a hiker at all times – e.g., at the grocery store – is also extremely PNW.
Raincoat Instead of Umbrella
Use an umbrella, and locals may look at you as though you’re a purple giraffe from space. A raincoat, usually with the hood down – even while raining – is preferred.
Coffee Shops Everywhere
Why do we need coffee shops across the street from coffee shops, next to grocery stores that contain coffee shops, with espresso stands in the parking lots? We just do.
Shellfish Obsession
In most places, finding “treasure” at the beach involves buried doubloons. Here, it means clams, mussels, oysters, crabs, even the confounding geoduck.
Raincoat Instead of Umbrella
Shellfish Obsession
Hiking
Coffee Shops Everywhere
Raincoat Instead of Umbrella
Hiking
Raincoat Instead of Umbrella
Bracket
Sweepstakes Sponsors
Special thanks to these wonderful AAA Discounts partners
Make Your Picks
Every week, we’ll feature head-to-head matchups of PNW faves – four pairings the first week, 2 the second week, and one final showdown in the third week.
Each week you vote, you’ll earn one entry for a weekly prize and one entry for the Grand Prize: a 3-day Cabana van trip! (1 vote per matchup per week allowed).
Weekly prizes will be drawn on the following Wednesday; Grand Prize will be drawn on 03/31/2023.
Voting has Closed