Still water, tall firs, and the quiet mirror of the forest inside Point Defiance Park. The Daily Outside: Bird Walk, Work Parties, Down and Dirty … 3.7.26 Saturday spills outward in every direction — runners gliding through forest roads before breakfast, birders circling a quiet beaver pond, volunteers pulling roots and planting habitat, and an afternoon reminder that the real magic of a garden begins beneath your boots. Forest miles before breakfast Tacoma Runners FREE Saturday 5K Tacoma Runners Saturday, March 7, 2026 • Meet 7 a.m. • Start 8 a.m. Point Defiance Park — just
Tacoma knows the particular joy of dry socks. It’s a small miracle that arrives after a damp walk through sideways drizzle, after puddles pretending to be sidewalks, after the cold sneaks quietly into your bones. You step inside, peel off the soggy pair, and suddenly the world resets — warmth creeping back, comfort returning, everything just a little kinder. Beer can do the same thing. Some pours crackle with fireworks; others simply wrap you up and murmur, relax, you made it through the rain. Which makes tonight’s Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp event feel perfectly aligned. Socks & Suds runs from
Dog Days at Northwest Trek: Leashed pups explore forest trails while wolves, elk, and bison watch from the hills. The Daily Outside: Nature Center Work Party & Dog Days at NW Trek 3.6.26 Friday forks the trail in two directions — one path with muddy gloves and quiet restoration, the other with wagging tails and noses tilted toward the wild. Both count as caring for the outdoors. One tends it. The other simply wanders through with joy. Mud on Your Gloves, Cedar in the Air TNC Stewardship Work Party Tacoma Nature Center • Parks Tacoma Friday,
Tacoma Beer Week rolls on with Grit & Grain Episode 180 featuring New School Beer + Cider’s Ezra Johnson-Greenough. Mashing-In News: Ezra Johnson-Greenough, Socks & Suds GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, March 6, 2026 — David Gilmour turns 80 today! Today’s craft beer news moves from Tacoma Beer Week conversations and community sock drives to festival spotlights, anniversary celebrations, and a wider industry reflection on where craft beer goes next in its fifth decade. Grit & Grain Talks Beer Journalism with Ezra Johnson-Greenough Grit & Grain Podcast Episode 180 celebrates Tacoma Beer Week with a
Three Tacoma Tree Foundation champions, smiling like people who know the future of a city can start with a shovel, a sapling, and a little stubborn belief in shade. TTF joins Tacoma Green Drinks at E9 Brewing tonight. The Daily Outside: Native Plants, Tacoma Green Drinks, Tacoma Runners Thursday stretches in three directions — roots in the soil, trees discussed over pints, and a comet parade of runners looping Proctor in the dark. Tacoma learning, gathering, moving. Same sky, different forms of oxygen. Growing the Right Kind of Wild Rooted in the PNW: Embracing Native Plants
Proctor District evenings have their own tempo — a little slower, a little more conversational, the sidewalks carrying that familiar Tacoma rhythm of neighbors waving across storefront windows and friends lingering longer than planned. For Tacoma Beer Week, that rhythm sharpens into something festive but still unmistakably local. Peaks & Pints’ Proctor Prefunk taps directly into that feeling, offering a place to gather before the trivia lights come up at the Blue Mouse and the night fans outward into Tacoma Beer Week’s friendly chaos. Naturally, the tap list leans into the neighborhood as well. Narrows Brewing — a Tacoma institution
New School New Oregon isn’t just a clever flight name — it’s a nod to the person who’s been mapping the wiring behind Pacific Northwest beer for a quarter century. While tap lists evolve and breweries bloom and contract like tidal pools, Ezra Johnson-Greenough has been documenting the infrastructure: distribution shifts, WARN filings, consolidation tremors, cider’s parallel arc, the slow tectonics beneath the froth. Before his New School Beer webmag became required reading for anyone who cares how beer actually moves from tank to tap, he was pouring it at Belmont Station, watching what sold, what stalled, and when the
Folding chairs, forward thinking — Parks Tacoma will gather at Eastside Community Center, where clipboards, questions, and quiet civic momentum shaped the future of Tacoma’s parks one conversation at a time. Photo courtesy of Parks Tacoma The Daily Outside: Co-Create to Recreate 3.4.26 Midweek slows down just enough to talk about what kind of city we want to walk through — parks, people, and the long game of growing something together. Budgets, ballots, and the underrated art of showing up Co-Create to Recreate – EastsideParks TacomaWednesday, March 4, 2026 • 5:30–7:30 p.m.Eastside Community CenterFree • Open
Peaks & Pints hosts a live Grit & Grain double episode with New School Beer’s Ezra Johnson-Greenough at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4. Mashing-In News: New School On Grit & Grain, Session Lager Turns 21 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, March 4, 2026 — Paul W.S. Anderson turns 61 today! Today’s craft beer news drifts from Tacoma taproom microphones to Belgian travel dreams, historic Washington hops, anniversary lagers, Portland’s wonderfully weird beer events, and a major global acquisition reshaping the craft landscape. Ezra Johnson-Greenough Joins Grit & Grain for Live Podcast During Tacoma Beer Week,
There’s something beautifully subversive about putting the forest in a pint. Hops, those wiry little climbers, carry the DNA of vine and understory, capable of releasing aromas that feel torn straight from bark, sap, and rain-damp earth. Pine resin, spruce tips, evergreen oil — these aren’t gimmicks, they’re geography. One sip and the taproom recedes, replaced by fir-lined trails and cedar air, the ghost of wet soil rising after a storm. In the Pacific Northwest, that sharp green snap isn’t trend; it’s muscle memory. It’s hiking boots in the trunk, sticky fingers from snapping a twig, wind threading through tall
Last year at Peaks & Pints: pints in hand, saplings under arm, a packed house proving Tacoma knows how to turn draft beer into future shade — one crowded, leafy, slightly chaotic act of civic love at a time. The Daily Outside: Pints For Pines, Fleet Feet Puyallup, Feederwatch 3.3.26 Tuesday branches out in all directions — backyard bird brains at 2, pavement miles at 6, and pints turned into future canopy by dusk — a day where Tacoma grows roots and laces up at the same time. Pints, pines, and the radical act of planting
Before pilsner went pale and colonized the planet, Bavaria preferred shadow. Dunkel — simply “dark” — was Munich’s everyday pour, born from kilned malts the color of walnut shells and hearth-fired crust. In the era before precision malting, darker grain wasn’t stylistic flair; it was the baseline. Brewers refined decoction mashing not for drama but for depth, pulling layers of toasted grain, caramel hush, and faint chocolate memory from simple ingredients, then cooling, fermenting, and waiting. Patience was the final ingredient. Despite the hue, dunkel was never a bruiser. Properly made, it moves with quiet composure — malt-forward yet nimble,
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma March 2-8 2026 March in Tacoma arrives like a slightly overcaffeinated stage manager — juggling dunkels and Disney choruses, saplings and sharp beer industry talk, neighborhood pre-games and sock drives, all while a one-woman comedy cracks open the tender center of parenting — and this week’s 6-Pack feels like the city adjusting the spotlight and reminding us that community can look like a pint, a pine tree, a podcast mic, a trivia shout, a warm pair of socks, or a brave voice telling the truth with a grin. Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp: Disney
Join the sharp-eyed volunteers at Tahoma Bird Alliance today and teach your eyes the small, flickering poetry of backyard birds, then head to Peaks & Pints for a pint of Finnriver Farm & Cidery Buckhorn Dry Cider. The Daily Outside: Feederwatch, Monday Fun Run, Thru-Hiking Psychology 3.2.26 Monday stretches from backyard finches to neighborhood miles to the far edge of the continent — a neat progression from “what bird is that?” to “how far can a human actually go?” Goldfinch Gossip and the Art of Getting the ID Right Feederwatch at the Tahoma Bird Alliance OfficeTahoma
Where animated soundtracks will meet dark Bavarian malt, Disney & Dunkels promises to turn Tacoma Beer Week into a sing-along in a pint glass — community gathering, glasses clinking, and a little magic drifting through Peaks & Pints. Mashing-In News: Tacoma Beer Week, IPA Survey Results GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, March 2, 2026 — Daniel Craig turns 58 today! Monday’s craft beer news swings from Tacoma’s charity-fueled taproom revelry to Eugene’s sobering setbacks, from IPA soul-searching and farmhouse funk to Hall of Fame honors and five-day Irish blowouts — a reminder that beer culture
Sunday’s New Beer Six-Pack swings from pine-dark Cascadian rebellion to tequila-barrel midnight heat, from Yakima haze to razor-clean rice lager precision — a lineup built for hop heads, malt mystics, and anyone who likes their March with a little voltage. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 3.1.26 March kicks in the door with pine-dark IPAs, tequila-barrel midnight, Yakima haze, and razor-clean lager precision — a New Beer Six-Pack that reads like Tacoma Beer Week warming up its vocal cords and daring you to keep pace. E9 BREWING BROWNS POINT CASCADIAN DARK ALE: Collaboration with Dustin Striplin
Peanut butter didn’t enter beer with a marketing deck and a tidy mission statement; it barged in like a pastry outlaw with a mash paddle and a sweet tooth. American brewers had long toyed with nut-brown ales and velvet stouts, but it took the rule-bending bravado of the 2000s craft surge for someone to glance at a milk stout and think, let’s make this taste like a peanut butter cup. Lactose offered silk, roasted malt delivered cocoa-toned depth, and suddenly the idea stopped feeling like a gimmick and started tasting like memory. Across the country, brewers discovered what grandmothers and
Swan Creek, before it was a work party and after it was wild — a layered map of memory, salmon runs, second-growth hope, and the slow, stubborn heritage of a park that keeps choosing to grow back. The Daily Outside: Coffee with the Birds, Swan Creek, Mt. Rainier Snowshoe 3.1.26 Sunday arrives in layers: chickadee code over coffee, snow hush at Paradise, and muddy gloves at Swan Creek — a day built on paying attention and giving something back. Coffee with the Birds: Chick-Chick-Chickadees Park Guides • Parks Tacoma Sunday, March 1, 2026 • 9–11 a.m.
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Tacoma Beer Week has a way of turning neighborhoods into ecosystems, and on Saturday, February 28, the tide rolls straight through the Proctor District with 7 Seas Brewing at the helm. The 3rd Annual Proctor Polar Bear Crawl gathers steam from 2 to 6 p.m., then flows into Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp at Peaks & Pints from 5 to 8 — a brief, bright window where community, conservation, and craft beer share the same bar top. Like last year’s event, Peaks & Pints’ Western redcedar tap log belongs to 7 Seas, a Pierce County cornerstone that has been charting local
Saturday morning: 3.1 miles of car-free curves through Point Defiance — a little up, a little down, a lot of forest. Meet beyond the first closed gate, start at 8 sharp, and finish by 9. The Daily Outside: Tacoma Runners, Work Parties, Master Gardeners 2.28.26 Saturday reads like a field guide with too many good tabs open: sunrise miles, dirt-under-the-nails stewardship, windowsill revolutions, ink-stained leaves, and a late-afternoon room full of bird nerds plotting the future. Choose wisely. Or don’t. Do two. Forest miles, car-free curves, and that smug glow by 9 a.m. Tacoma Runners FREE
In August 2020, in the strange quiet of a pandemic summer, Chris Palumbo and Michael Woodruff opened their Burien brewery, Logan Brewing, with patio seating, two beers on tap, and a mission stitched deeply into the name above the door. Named for Chris’ younger brother, lost to suicide, the brewery was built not only to pour beer but to support suicide prevention and mental health awareness through quarterly donations and community partnerships. Born from UC Davis fermentation science roots and years spent inside the industry, the project came into the world with purpose already folded into the grain bill. And
Grit & Grain co-host Matt McLaren posted up in front of the kegs, talking Oregon shake-ups, distro chess moves, and what it all means for the Northwest beer map — one stainless-steel sermon at a time. Mashing-In News: Oregon Distribution, Beervana Turns 20 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 — Joanne Woodward turns 96 today! Friday’s craft beer news reads like a Pacific Northwest pulse check — policy battles in Olympia, Oregon industry shake-ups, festival expansions, historic pub revivals, hop comebacks, ferry-boat IPAs, and a reminder that sometimes a blog can change an
The Chambers Creek Birding Walk begins at Kobayashi Park a The Daily Outside: Chambers Creek Birding Walk, Feeding Frenzy 2.27.26 Friday slides from canyon hush to tidal mischief — owls in hollow trunks at breakfast, hermit crabs throwing elbows by happy hour. The wild, as usual, keeps its own calendar. Creek bends, snag forests, and a morning that’s already mid-conversation before you arrive Chambers Creek Birding WalkTahoma Bird Alliance • Led by volunteer Tiffany WhitbyFriday, Feb. 27, 2026 • 8–9:30 a.m.Meet at Kobayashi Park, 6420 Bridgeport Way W, University PlaceFree • All experience levels welcome This
Fort George Brewery’s Matryoshka program has never been about making just one big stout — it’s about lineage, patience, and the strange alchemy that happens when time, oak, and imagination share the same cellar. Each year begins with a massive imperial stout base, itself a descendant of From Astoria With Love, laid down in whiskey barrels for stretches that feel more like seasons than schedules. Single barrels, double barrels, blends that have slept for years — all nested together like the Russian dolls that inspired the name. Some versions lean austere and barrel-driven, others drift into dessert territory with vanilla,
Green light, fresh pour, and that moment when the tap wall hums like a secret forest — Sean Jackson pulling liquid optimism while Tacoma quietly plots its next wild idea. The Daily Outside: Green Drinks, Tacoma Runners, Theler Wetlands Birds … 2.26.26 Thursday moves like tidewater — estuary wings at sunrise, ideas trading hands over pints, and a twilight run that shakes loose whatever the workday tried to keep. Estuary edges, red-winged echoes, and the slow magic of watching the tide breathe Theler Wetlands Bird WalkTahoma Bird Alliance • Led by John Riegsecker & Faye HandsThursday,
Chuckanut Brewery’s story begins long before Burlington, back in the first ripple of the Northwest craft-beer boom, when Mari and Will Kemper were already shaping the language of modern lager long before haze became a personality trait. After helping launch Thomas Kemper Brewery in 1984 and consulting across continents, they planted their own flag in Whatcom County in 2008, opening a Bellingham brewery devoted to the beautifully unfashionable idea that precision, patience, and European tradition still mattered. While trends chased volume and spectacle, these beers quietly built a reputation for clarity — crisp lines, balanced malt, and a confidence that
Winter Gardening at Tillicum Library Branch — soggy soil therapy + smart prep for potential Proctor Community Garden appearance. The Daily Outside: Ecological Economics, Backyard Habitats, Winter Gardening … 2.25.26 Wednesday hums in a quieter register — spreadsheets learning to speak river, library chairs turning into habitat plans, and a little late-winter dirt talk reminding Tacoma that growth rarely waits for spring’s permission. Turning numbers into something that actually moves people Ecological Economics & Watershed Restoration Advancing Nature-Based Solutions Through Economic Valuation — Session 1 Presented by Earth Economics • Hosted by Urban Waters Learning Network
Two weeks later, the tide turns again. The Humble Sea Second Round Flight doesn’t revisit the shoreline so much as redraw it — a fresh set of Humble Sea Brewing beers rolling in with new moods, new textures, and just one familiar fog bank drifting back through the lineup like an old friend who knows the secret door. If the first flight felt like sunrise over Santa Cruz, this one leans into the in-between hours: neon surfboards stacked outside a closed café, gulls arguing with the wind, the quiet confidence of a brewery that’s stopped trying to prove anything and
Rows of comfort, quiet anticipation, and that electric little pause before a group run turns strangers into a moving conversation through Puyallup. The Daily Outside: Point Defiance Trails, Feederwatch, Puyallup Run 2.24.26 Tuesday stretches from quiet forest paths to bird-nerd table talk to a twilight shuffle through town — a gentle arc of wandering, watching, and moving together before the week decides how loud it wants to be. Local trails, mossy switchbacks Point Defiance Park — Trails Across the ParkMetro Parks TacomaOpen daily from just before sunrise until shortly after sunset Some days you want a
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During Tacoma Beer Week 2025, the Tacoma Tree Foundation packed Peaks & Pints with citizens looking to plant at their homes. More free trees are arriving this year for a giveaway event on Tuesday, March 3. Tacoma Beer Week 2026: Peaks & Pints Basecamp Drinking For Conservation Director Suzanne Akerman will be saving polar bears’ lives Saturday at Peaks & Pints in Proctor, Tacoma. Tacoma Beer Week has never really been about chasing the rarest pour or checking off a list of stops. It’s about movement — the quiet hum of people
Tacoma doesn’t really do quiet gardens. Even the herbs here grow with a little grit under their nails — basil pushing through alleyway sun, mint slipping past cedar fences, rose petals catching drizzle like tiny lanterns. This cider flight wanders from Wright Park toward the Proctor farmers market with your senses tuned just enough to notice the green things breathing between buildings. Apples hum underneath it all, but the botanicals steer the story — basil brushing your sleeve, lemongrass lifting into citrus air, winter spice rising like steam off rain-dark pavement. Five pours, one slow orbit through orchard and city,
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma Feb. 23–March 1, 2026 Late winter in Tacoma doesn’t slip away quietly — it crackles, rearranges the furniture, and orders another round just to see who shows up. With Tacoma Beer Week stepping into the spotlight, this week’s 6-Pack drifts between noir TV dreams, coastal stout rituals, analog guitar glow, neighborhood crawls with a conscience, and a Sunday jazz wind-down that feels like the city taking a long, creative breath. Twin Peaks Day at The Red Hot | Tuesday, Feb. 24 Somewhere between a diner-booth hallucination and a flicker of Pacific Northwest weirdness,
Grit & Grain Podcast sat down with Ladd & Lass Brewing. Mashing-In News: Grit & Grain & Ladd & Lass, Chinese Hops GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 — Emily Blunt turns 43 today! Today’s craft beer news hums with late-winter momentum — from Tacoma’s community-charged Beer Week and a deep dive into Chinese hop terroir to the rise of experimental hoppy lagers and a fresh Grit & Grain conversation with the thoughtful builders behind Seattle’s Ladd & Lass Brewing. Grit & Grain Podcast Spotlights Ladd & Lass Brewing Grit & Grain Podcast
Drift into the evening with Joe Albrecht’s Ursich Park stewardship talk at Tacoma Nature Center — part potluck, part forest field notes. The Daily Outside: Beginning Birders, Joe Albrecht, Park Board 2.23.26 Monday arrives in layers — quiet wetlands, steady footsteps, shared tables, and the small civic rooms where Tacoma quietly decides what its parks will become next. Learning to listen before you learn to name Beginning Birders Walk at Adriana HessTahoma Bird Alliance • Volunteer Guide Andrew LarsenMonday, Feb. 23, 2026 • 9:30–10:30 a.m.Adriana Hess Wetland Park — Meet at the Tahoma Bird Alliance office2917
Triple IPA still isn’t an official BJCP style — which feels oddly perfect for a beer category born from curiosity rather than rules. It emerged when brewers pushed beyond the already-loud double IPA, chasing saturation, structure, and the thrill of seeing just how far hops could stretch without collapsing under their own weight. Early versions leaned sharp and bitter, technical feats wrapped in pine and citrus, but the modern era reshaped the idea into something wider and more expressive: plush haze beside dry West Coast snap, cosmic aroma layered over contemplative strength. Without a formal guideline to pin it down,
Start with the Point Defiance Bird Walk at 8:30 a.m., where the forest teaches you to slow down and actually listen. The Daily Outside: Point Defiance Bird Walk, Mount Rainier Snowshoe … 2.22.26 Sunday’s Daily Outside moves in quiet layers — forest breath, mountain hush, and a saltwater feeding frenzy that proves the wild never really takes a day off. Forest whispers, binocular clicks, and the slow art of learning how to see Point Defiance Bird Walk Park Guides • Metro Parks Tacoma Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026 • 8:30–10:30 a.m. Meet at the 5-Mile Drive entrance
Saturday’s New Beer Six-Pack just slid into the Peaks & Pints cooler like a slightly chaotic cosmic playlist — dive-bar light lager, old-school West Coast snap, coastal pale ease, neon haze, and two velvet-heavy stout sermons built for slow winter nights. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 2.21.26 Saturday’s New Beer Six-Pack lands like a mixed-tape from opposite corners of the beer universe — velvet barrel monsters, neon-lit haze, dive-bar clarity, and crisp coastal crushables all sharing the same cooler hum. BALE BREAKER BREWING FIVE STAR DIVE BAR LIGHT BEER: Pale-gold and porchlight easy, Bale Breaker
Logan Brewing Really Special Bitter — malt-soft, story-heavy. Tacoma Field Notes: Logan Brewing Really Special Bitter Logan Brewing, Tacoman R. Steven Bird, and the quiet gravity of a community pint FIELD NOTE 01: the regular who becomes part of the roomEvery brewery has one — the person who doesn’t just sit at the bar but somehow becomes structural, like a well-placed beam or the hum behind the tap handles. R. Steven Bird wasn’t loud about it. Legally blind, fiercely independent, and stubborn in the best Tacoma way, he moved through the world with a white cane,
Irrelevant Beer didn’t arrive waving a banner or chasing a trend cycle — it slipped into the Pacific Northwest conversation through the back door of a coffee roastery, carrying a philosophy that reads like an anti-hype manifesto scribbled on a napkin beside your espresso. Born from Relevant Coffee’s restless creativity and shaped by brewers who respect both old-school structure and modern swagger, the Vancouver crew leans into clarity over noise, balance over bravado, and the quietly radical idea that a brewery doesn’t need to shout to be heard. These beers move between worlds — West Coast snap, soft haze, contemplative
Hands busy, brain quiet — three hours at Fort Nisqually where leather, steel tools, and a little patience turn modern noise into something slow, precise, and deeply satisfying. Photo courtesy of Parks Tacoma The Daily Outside: Tacoma Runners, Work Parties, Workshops 2.21.26 Saturday wakes up early — runners threading through forest shade, shovels turning fresh soil, park stewards going toe-to-toe with blackberry ambition, and at least one dog dragging a human toward the shoreline like it’s a sacred appointment. Headlamp hush and a 3.1-mile forest reset Tacoma Runners FREE Saturday 5K Tacoma Runners Saturday, Feb. 21,
Six fresh reasons to cancel your plans and lean into the weekend. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 2.20.26 Friday’s New Beer Six-Pack arrives like a half-whispered rumor sliding across the bar — citrus static, oak-shadowed thunder, pilsner clarity cutting through the noise — six small reasons to lean into the weekend and forget your phone exists. CLOUDBURST LOTS OF STRATA IPA: Strata hops run wild in this Cloudburst Brewing release, all passionfruit pulp, grapefruit rind, and dank green echo, flashing like headlights through a wet Seattle alley at last call, 6.8%, 16oz. CLOUDBURST MORE THAN
Feb. 14, 2026 — Astoria turned shadow-bright as Fort George’s sold-out Festival of Dark Arts swallowed an entire city block, where ice sculptures glowed, fire dancers flickered, and tarot cards, tattoos, and stout blurred the line between brewery and dreamscape. Peaks & Pints hosts 2026 Fort George Dark Arts Road Show Every February, while most of the Pacific Northwest leans into gray skies and hibernation, Astoria, Oregon, chooses a different ritual: Fort George Brewery’s Stout Month — a 28-day rebellion against winter built from roasted barley, music, art, and a relentless parade of dark beer. The
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Somewhere a brewery whistle blows and the opening notes of Laverne & Shirley echo down a brick-lined Milwaukee street, all big laughs, blue-collar hustle, and the beautiful fiction of Shotz Brewery churning out endless suds for a thirsty nation. The sitcom was chaos wrapped in friendship — Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams turning factory floors into stages for slapstick survival — and even if the brewery itself lived only on a soundstage, the Midwestern devotion to beer was anything but pretend. These are the folks who treat tailgates like sacred rituals, who argue lagers with the seriousness of
Walk the Thea Foss Waterway Esplanade where glass towers meet working docks. The Daily Outside: Thea Foss Waterway Esplanade, Tacoma Nature Center 2.20.26 Friday’s Daily Outside leans into Tacoma’s quieter rituals — a waterfront walk that traces the city’s evolving shoreline and a morning of hands-in-the-soil stewardship that reminds us the best way to start the weekend is simply by showing up outside. Tide lines, glass towers, and a waterfront that learned how to walk again Thea Foss Waterway EsplanadeDowntown Tacoma Waterfront WalkThea’s Park to Dock Street corridors • Approx. 1.6–1.9 milesBoardwalk + concrete path •
