LEAVENWORTH, WA | Washington’s little German town
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2021
- Welcome to Leavenworth, WA! Washington’s little Germany town. Located on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains about 2 hours from Seattle, WA, this quirky little town is home to year round fun including Oktoberfest, epic Christmas lights, beautiful fall colors, spring flowers, and, of course, beer and pretzels! We loved our short time in Leavenworth and will likely continue to pass through this little town time and time again since some of our favorite mountain spots are located in the mountains just outside of Leavenworth town limits.
Have you visited Leavenworth or would you? Let us know in the comments below!
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Heard this place looks so magical during Christmas! The music fits this town so well 😂
It's beautiful at Christmas! You'd love it!! 😊
@@chrisandsara had a few friends that used to be stationed in that area and they said it looks how you'd imagine Santa's village in the North Pole to look.
I went to summer camp just outside of Leavenworth in the early 60's. It was not the wonderful Bravarian Village that it is now. I have been very lucky to see it change and grow over the years. Thanks for shining a spotlight on a beautiful place in Washington State.
Thanks so much for watching, and for sharing a little about it's history!
Love Leavenworth! Whitewater rafting is great, no helmets but wetsuits definitely required (and provided). I’ve done it twice and would go again in a heartbeat!
Great ..loved the way you showed and told about the Leavenworth
I went there once and I have not ever forgotten it. I
It's beautiful and Its fun!🎉
Been traveling to WA for the past 10 years, either with my best friends, my partner, or just myself. Leavenworth is always a stop for me. Usually travel ~April-ish and hitting the bars and restaurants at night is always fun. Also some drunken late night goat pets are always in order
What a great little town. Like the Epcot Germany pavilion only bigger! Iceland is more than I can handle but I hope your trip is great. Looking forward to content from there!
I grew up in a suburb of Seattle. Leavenworth is magic. 😍 love watching you guys explore it!
It definitely was! Thank you for watching!
If memory serves, Leavenworth was a logging town and after the tree-huggers got the mills to shut down, the locals needed something to keep the town alive, so they converted the whole town into a Bavarian Village.
Now that you live in Chattanooga, you are sooo close to Helen, Georgia. It’s a lot like this!
Leavenworth, WA is delightful. Cross-country skiing up Icicle Creek way is a treat, as is so much of the area. Good for you, guys!
It was so fun!
FYI Leavenworth also has a small ski area and lodge plus inner tubing. Ice sculpting competition. Art in the park pole dancing may fest parade. Also Leavenworth use the be known for big ski jumping tournaments of there 90 meter ski jump less then. 1/4 mike out of town. People all over the world were invited to competition this jump for a tournament of the best of the best. People trained in for the tournament . Leavenworth didn’t have a lot of hotels back then so they were house among local for places to stay. It was one of the most amazing events to attend all the way around. The hill still resides the at Leavenworth ski course called BAKKE HILL. Been an interesting town for years. Just a few memorable thing I’ve attended and enjoyed remembering about the little town called LEAVENWORTH. Thank for listening. Sincerely Tracy
Yes a great town Leavenworth is beautiful and has one of the nicest golf courses I've played on the moment you enter you feel like your in a European town with the mountain tops in the background I've been there several times well worth visiting it.
It was so beautiful!
Watch live cams sometimes and the film " someone i use to know" brought me to this place lol would love to visit there
Love the music!
Can I just say that this is the cutest, but somehow creepiest town in America? 😂 The views here look incredible! Also, I love the fact that you guys out subtitles on Kramer!
I love going to Leavenworth! Next time you’re back in Washington, come and visit Poulsbo - it’s a ferry ride across Puget Sound from Seattle. It’s a mini version of Leavenworth but all Norwegian-themed. Maybe you’ve driven by on your way to the ferry before. There’s lots of great shops and restaurants and we’re only a short drive from the Olympic Peninsula. Happy travels! 🚐
Great recommendation!
Very cool!
Thank you! I haven't been anywhere since covid started and it's great to live vicariously through you! I could of swore I saw Allison and Eric's (The Endless Adventure) RV Clementine at 6:30. 😂
I saw that too! Wondered how I could send them the video clip!
We love Leavenworth. You’re in my neck of the world.
I live only an hour way Frankenmuth! December is nuts in Frankenmuth. I recommend early January. Would love to show you guys around with our St.Bernard!
I miss that place love the town and camping up on the Ice cicle creek I'm from Washington but like you all I now live in Chattanooga
It's definitely a beautiful place! Chattanooga is a pretty great city too though! 😉
I lived in Everett and Bremerton, Washington for 3 years and I never visited Leavenworth. I am planning to go back to move back to Everett, Washington. I plan to visit Leavenworth once I return back to Washington.
The Andreas Keller restaurant is very good and has cool vibes. It's downstairs and there's usually live music or dancing going on down there (at least when I've been)
Yes, an annual pilgrimage to Leavenworth for the holidays was a tradition while I lived in Seattle. Maximum kitsch but so fun. Iceland…go on…i’m listening. 🤔
Have y’all been to Winthrop Washington? Or Ballard Seattle Washington? I’d like to send an invitation to Ballard Seattle’s oldest fishing town! Come to Pcc Natural Market enjoy some great food! We have a guest suite in the Ballard Public Lofts! Love to have y’all come stay!
I did a four day trip to Iceland in 1967. At that time, very quaint with nice, beautiful people. Fish at every meal. I would only go in July, Aug or early Sept. by 4th week in Sept, weather was pretty icky.
As someone who used to work in Leavenworth- you missed going to the cheesemongers shop.. they literally used to have cows and goats out back… Also, Sleeping Lady and seeing Dale Chihuly glass works is just a few miles from downtown Leavenworth.
Also - be there when the glockenspiel plays downtown… it makes the whole town seem magical
Thank you for featuring our little town! ♥️♥️
Of course, it was so fun to visit!!
Oh I love it. I’d totally stop there.
Do! It's so fun and quirky! :) Definitely a fun little small town.
We just finished up quite an extensive Iceland campervan trip! That'll be EPIC!
I love Leavenworth! Next time you are there go check out the reindeer farm! It’s amazing! Also their summer theater does The Sound of Music at the old ski hill. Lake Wenatchee is close by and you can rent kayaks and paddle boards.
awesome recommendations, thank you!
Its sure nice to see some appreciation for my hometown
Looks pretty epic.
it was pretty awesome!
I hear there is a nice walk along the Wenatchee River, also.
The Iceland trip itinerary looks sweet. Just note that the cost adjustment of stuff is steep cause it's an island. So the airport duty free is the place to get booze. The grocery stores w/ the pig icon are worth visiting. The midnight sun is real, so bring an eye mask. Their ice cream is superb and seemed to be a late night thing to have in Reykjavik: Valdis at the harbor closes at 11pm. The fermented shark is an ammonia bomb. The water (shower/tap) will smell like sulfur at first, but if you let the water sit uncovered, it will taste great in 10 minutes.
Would love to go to Iceland with you!!!
I always look forward to my Sundays with Chris, Sara, & Kramer…btw, feel free to drop Kramer off here, Zoé & Zeus won’t mind. Y’all can fly out of Washington Dulles on your way to Iceland
Great little town. On a smaller scale check out Helen Georgia. Iceland is a little ambitious for us but would really enjoy the workshop. Have you ever considered doing a work shop in your home town of Chattanooga . You could do the work shop and some sights around town. Keep the group small and do it a couple times a year.
That’s a cool spot I need to visit there
We definitely recommend visiting!
I live in Western Washington and have been through there many times with my skoolie. Tons of fun things to do in the area, but the town itself really isn’t my thing. Having said that, I’d love to visit there around Christmas.
Oh yes I bet it would be so fun around Christmas!
Frankenmuth Michigan is amazing. Small town, quirky and fun.
We've heard that from quite a few people, may have to add it to the list!
So, it’s like Helen, GA! 🤗
As a German living in Northern Germany I think it’s funny to see you explore „German“ things that are in fact just Bavarian things 😄 Bavaria must be very impressive to the rest of the world, considering that Germany is often reduced to Bavarian looks and traditions 😄 don’t be disappointed if you ever visit the rest of Germany which doesn’t look like Bavaria at all! 😄
What an odd thing to say.
I can understand his comment. Kitch is fun but you don't want your WHOLE country to be stamped as that! We (or at least I) don't want all of US to be thought of as like Disneyland!
Bavaria and Hesse were the US occupational zone post-WWII, so they were the first places returning GIs thought of when thinking about Germany. Eventually a lot of those veterans got film and television jobs and the rest is history.
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Reminds me of Helen, GA. Have you ever been there? Same story it’s in the mountains and wanted people to stop on their way somewhere else.
Yes that's so true!
Defiantly should hit up Frankenmuth MI! Really awesome tourist trap sadly no mountains like that in the back...
We will have to add it to our list!
I was coming down from Chelan and should have visited, but I was a stinky backpacker... maybe next time.
Love Leavenworth. Live not far from there and have for my whole life. Have you been to the Reindeer Farm? You need to try a sleigh ride in winter.
We'd love to do that, we may have to go back someday for that!
The Raindeer Farm just outside of Leavenworth is a must do!
Yes we've heard a few people recommend that, great idea!
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You missed the reindeer farm where you can feed and pet reindeer.. It's a must do.
I live in the capital of Bavaria, Munich. Nice town, but there is no comparison to the original O'Fest that takes place here in Munich.
I visited Munich years ago and wondered if there was some sort of building ordinance there. 5 story buildings as far as you could see.
I have two similar places for anyone who liked this but can’t get to the West Coast: Berne, IN and Helen, GA. Berne is not kitschy, but Helen fits the bill.
Yes, multiple people have recommended those spots! Will definitely have to check them out.
This town reminds me of Helen, Georgia.
Yes! Definitely the same kind of thing. :)
I knew Iceland would be the winner, fyi I rode horses 200 miles around the glacier pushing a herd of 60, staying in mountain huts along the way…
Y’all should go to New Glarus, Wisconsin. It’s a Swiss town!
Oh how fun!! I've never heard of Glarus but visiting a little piece of Switzerland would be so cool! I'll add it to our map, now. :)
And the biggest draw is New Glarus Brewery which has some of the best beer around and you can only buy it in Wisconsin.
@@chrisandsara Oh, and I forgot to mention Mount Horeb, Wisconsin! It’s very Norwegian centric and is the “Troll Capital of the World!” It’s a tiny town, but there are great Norwegian shops and there are carved wooden trolls - of all sizes - everywhere you look!
Y’all, this list of places I have to visit keeps getting longer, and that’s OK with me!
Also…keeping my eyes peeled for the Icelandic info 👍
That town reminds me of Solvang in California.
My coworkers was telling me about that place
@@sofakingraw4149 it’s a pretty cool place
Enjoy your content!!😀
Thanks for watching, Brian! :)
A nutcracker for the van would make a fantastic passenger....
Haha it really looks like Bavaria 😅 greetings from southern Germany
Go back to Germany
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Took a shot everytime u said quirky 😂 just a recommendation, consider more footage of the places with voiceovers, instead of filling the video with with you talking 🙂
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So we are about to go. Are they requiring masks still? I mean, lots of courts are blocking Bidens mandates so I am hoping the masks will be optional or gone in time for our summer vacation.
Hi there! When we were there in September there was a statewide mask mandate for indoors. I'm not sure what the rules are now.
not going there
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It's little Nazi
Is there a way to see all the survey results ?
I don’t have a way to share all of them, but I can tell you the top choices were Iceland, Italy, and Alaska. People were most interested in seeing nature/wildlife and food/drink. ☺️
Screenshot would do it 😉@@chrisandsara
The overcrowding from tourism has wrecked the quality of life for the locals. This town is crawling with people almost every weekend throughout the year.