15 Facts About Bellingham WA

City of Bellingham WA, incorporated in 1903, consolidated four settlements: Bellingham WA, Whatcom, Fairhaven, and Sehome.

Bellingham WA is the homeland of Coast Salish peoples of the Lummi People and neighboring tribes.

Bellingham WA is 18 miles south of the US-Canada border and 50 miles southeast of Vancouver.

Bellingham WA's neighborhoods are Alabama Hill, Barkley, Birchwood, Columbia, Cordata, Cornwall Park, Downtown Central Business District, Edgemoor, Fairhaven, Happy Valley, Irongate, King Mountain, Lettered Streets, Meridian, Puget, Roosevelt, Samish, Sehome, Silver Beach, South, South Hill, Sunnyland, Whatcom Falls, WWU, and York.

Bellingham WA's climate is generally mild and typical of the Puget Sound region.

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South of the city of Bellingham WA Chuckanut Drive has cliffside views of the sea, the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Mountains, the hills and forests of the Chuckanut mountains, and several small bays along the edge of the Salish Sea.

Bellingham WA is home to an active writers community at the local universities and independent of them.

The Port of Bellingham WA purchased the G-P site for $10 with the understanding that the port would assume liability for the contamination.

People of Bellingham WA pursue a diverse range of amateur sports, with skiing and snowboarding at the Mount Baker Ski Area popular in the winter and kayaking and cycling in the summer.

Bellingham WA has four public middle schools: Kulshan Middle School, Shuksan Middle School, Fairhaven Middle School, and Whatcom Middle School which was recently rebuilt after extensive fire damage in 2009.

Private schools in Bellingham WA include Whatcom Hills Waldorf School, Whatcom Day Academy, St Paul's Academy, and Assumption Catholic School .

City of Bellingham WA operates a public access channel available to Comcast cable customers on Channel 10.

Bellingham WA is bisected by Interstate 5, which connects it to Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland, Oregon.

Alaska Airlines and Allegiant Air used to fly to Hawaii from Bellingham WA, serving Honolulu, Kahului, and Kona at various times, but this service ceased by 2019.

Bellingham WA maintains sister city relationships with five Pacific Rim port cities and Vaasa, Finland.