Come as you are, visit a celebrity Lady, listen for echoes of Kurt Cobain, step back into the time when timber ruled, or just wander around and feel as free as a bird. The port cities of Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis are always ready to extend a welcome.

This “Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula” began life as a center for forestry and fishing. But it is more famous these days as the birthplace of grunge and the hometown of Nirvana’s Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana. Some of Cobain’s lyrics, in songs such as “Something in the Way,” refer to locations in the town.