Itching to get out of Tri-Cities for the day? There's a ton to do right here at home in Richland, of course, but sometimes a road trip is the best kind of family fun!
To make planning easier for you, we've compiled a list of 70 places to explore within a 3ish drive of Tri-Cities.
Is there a spot your family loves within driving distance of Tri-Cities that isn't listed here? Tell us about it by dropping me a line at brittanyj@macaronikid.com.
Please note: While we've done our best to keep information current and up to date, please check with attractions before heading out!
Length of Trip
🚗: 0 minutes - 1 hour drive time from Tri-Cities
🚗🚗: 1 hour - 2 hours drive time from Tri-Cities
🚗🚗🚗: 2 hours - 3 hours drive time from Tri-Cities
🎢 Amusement Parks and Aquatic Centers
- Hermiston Family Aquatic Center, Hermiston, OR 🚗
- Joe Humbert Family Aquatic Center, Milton-Freewater, OR 🚗🚗
- Leavenworth Adventure Park, Leavenworth, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Pendleton Aquatic Center, Pendleton, OR 🚗🚗
- Prosser Aquatic Center, Prosser, WA 🚗
- Ritzville Water Park, Ritzville, WA 🚗🚗
- Silverwood Theme Park, Athol, ID 🚗🚗🚗
- Slidewaters Water Park, Chelan, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Surf 'n Slide Water Park, Moses Lake, WA
- Triple Play Family Fun Park, Hayden Lake, ID 🚗🚗🚗
- Veterans Memorial Pool, Walla Walla, WA 🚗
🐄 Animal Attractions
- Blue Zoo Aquarium, Spokane, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Bonneville Fish Hatchery, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Cat Tales Wildlife Center, Mead, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Irrigon Fish Hatchery, Irrigon, OR 🚗
- Leavenworth Reindeer Farm, Leavenworth, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery, Cook, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- McNary Dam Salmon Viewing, McNary, OR 🚗
- Oak Creek Wildlife Area Elk Feeding, Naches, WA 🚗🚗
- Win-Tur Bison Farm, Springdale, WA 🚗🚗🚗
🦕 Dinosaur Adventures
- Hisey Dinosaur Park, Granger, WA 🚗
✈️ Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center, Hayden, ID 🚗🚗🚗
- Historic Flight Foundation, Spokane, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Northern Pacific Railway Museum, Toppenish, WA 🚗
- Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Yakima Valley Trolleys Museum, Yakima, WA 🚗🚗
🚣 Lakes
- Lake Lenore, WA 🚗🚗
- Lake Wenatchee, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Potholes State Park, Othello, WA 🚗🚗
- Soap Lake, WA 🚗🚗
- Steamboat Rock State Park, Electric City, WA 🚗🚗🚗
🌊 Waterfalls
- Bailie's Creek Waterfall, Mesa, WA 🚗
- Buck Creek Falls, White Salmon, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Comet Falls, Ashford, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Dog Creek Falls, Cook, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Dry Creek Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Fairy Falls, Corbett, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Falls Creek Falls, Carson, WA 🚗🚗🚗
Franklin Falls, North Bend, WA🚗🚗🚗Closed until November 2023 (Construction)- Gable Falls, Washougal, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Metlako Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Mosier Falls, Mosier, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Mossy Grotto Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Multnomah Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Munra Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Narada Falls, Packwood, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Palouse Falls State Park, LaCrosse, WA 🚗🚗
- Ponytail Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Pool of the Winds, Stevenson, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Punch Bowl Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Spirit Falls, Cook, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Spokane Falls, Spokane, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Summer Falls, Coulee City, WA 🚗🚗
- Teneriffe Falls, North Bend, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Tish Creek Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Twin Falls, North Bend, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Twister Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Upper McCord Creek Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Upper Oneonta Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Wahclella Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Wahkeena Falls, Corbett, OR 🚗🚗🚗
- Wiesendanger Falls, Cascade Locks, OR 🚗🚗🚗
🏕️ Mountain Towns & Hiking Spots
- Boulder Cave, Naches, WA 🚗🚗
- Gingko Petrified Forest State Park, Vantage, WA 🚗🚗
- Lake Lenore Caves, Soap Lake, WA 🚗🚗
- Mt Rainier National Park, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Riverside State Park, Spokane, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park, WA 🚗🚗
- Twin Sisters Rock, Wallula Junction, WA 🚗
- Umtanum Creek Canyon, Ellensburg, WA 🚗🚗
- White Bluffs, Mesa, WA 🚗
🏙️ Small Towns & Big Cities
- Spokane, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Leavenworth, WA 🚗🚗🚗
- Coeur d'Alene, ID 🚗🚗🚗
- Hermiston, OR 🚗
- Walla Walla, WA 🚗
- Yakima, WA 🚗
- Pendleton, OR 🚗🚗
- Moscow, ID 🚗🚗🚗
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