The best-known lighthouses in Washington
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
Puget Sound has most of them close to town: Alki Point Lighthouse (1913) is 7 km from Seattle, Mukilteo Lighthouse (1906) stands in Mukilteo, Browns Point Lighthouse (1933) is 6 km from Tacoma. Oak Harbor is the base for Admiralty Head Lighthouse and Point Wilson Lighthouse (1879). Out on the Pacific, Cape Flattery Lighthouse (1857), North Head Lighthouse (1898) and Cape Disappointment Lighthouse have no town nearby.
RLQuest knows 27 named lighthouses in Washington, 18 of them with a Wikipedia article; the state's other page lists 408 waterfalls. Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse and Cattle Point Lighthouse are closer to Oak Bay in British Columbia than to any Washington town. For the rest, the app confirms the walk from your recorded route, and the beach you covered shows up on your map as tiles you have been to.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
