Located in Puget Sound, a quick ferry ride from Seattle, Washington, Whidbey Island is a unique and popular travel destination for the Pacific Northwest and the rest of the world.

Between the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges of the Pacific Northwest, Whidbey Island offers quality lodging accommodations, gourmet dining, unique art galleries and gifts, antiques, wineries, watchable wildlife, sustainable villages and hamlets, historical sites and recreational adventures for all seasons. There are trails for bikers and hikers, and amazing routes for sea kayakers, whether beginners or advanced.

At the north end of Whidbey Island, Anacortes is the gateway to San Juan, Orcas, Lopez, and the other islands which make up Island County in the Puget Sound of Washington State.

Whidbey Island is part of Island County, which also includes Camano Island, a small rural island which lies to the east of Whidbey, close to the mainland of Washington State.