Forget traveling to the Netherlands. I saw millions of colorful tulips without having to leave the US.

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival opens

The 2025 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival opened Tuesday.

In the kingdom, the tulip turns heads every spring, when a million tourists rush to the park of Keukenhof. Love of the flower was born there in the seventeenth century and was at the origin of one of the first episodes of speculative bubble of history.

Forget traveling to the Netherlands. I saw millions of colorful tulips without having to leave the US.

Although I was given permission to take this picture by a field manager, please be mindful of signs throughout the tulip fields that advise visitors where they can and cannot take photos.Bernadette RankinI've always dreamed of traveling to the Netherlands to visit the famous tulip festival.Instead, I visited Mount Vernon, Washington, during the height of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.I loved being able to see millions of colorful tulips witho…