PNW Region


Where is the Pacific Northwest?

For the purposes of this site, the Pacific Northwest is the ecological region bounded from north to south by Cook Inlet, Alaska to Eugene Oregon, and from east to west by the ridge of the Cascade and Coast mountain ranges to the Pacific Ocean.

PNW Map: 12k

Most of this image was generated by the nifty program at the Xerox PARC Map Viewer which uses USGS and CIA mapping data to let you zoom into any region of the world.