Where is Aberdeen, Washington?

1 hr from Olympia
1.75 hr from Seattle, WA
2.5 hr from Portland, OR
20 min from the Pacific Ocean

As the largest city on the Pacific Coast of Washington state, we serve as the commercial hub for a region rich in history and natural beauty, allowing for a 24/7 commercial district. Just an hour from the state capital in Olympia and less than three hours from two major metro areas -- Seattle, WA and Portland, OR -- with convenient access to the deep-water Port of Grays Harbor, industrial rail service and a jet-capable airport just 15 minutes from our downtown in our nextdoor neighbor city of Hoquiam.

(You can see where Bowerman Airport is in relation to our downtown area on our map on the Business page.)

Getting Here

Whatever your preferred mode of travel, you can get here on your terms. Aberdeen is not far from major transit access, including Interstate I-5, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and passenger rail via Olympia-Lacey Station.

With inexpensive intra-city bus travel starting as low as $1, you don't even need a car to access the area. Because we are blessed with a variety of historic scenic highways, some people even bike here from elsewhere.

Transit

Because the historic scenic highways which help create our downtown are not limited access roads, they bring traffic directly onto the streets of downtown Aberdeen. This effect is enhanced by the fact that our two rivers force traffic onto bridges, funneling a great deal of both local and regional traffic through the urban core of our downtown.

The East-West historic scenic highway U.S. Route 12 begins in Aberdeen and ends in Detroit, MI. Washington State Route 105 also begins in Aberdeen and leads to Westport, among other things. The nearly 1,550-mile-long North-South U.S. Route 101 passes through Aberdeen and runs along the entire West Coast, ending in Los Angeles, CA.

Wishkah St. and Heron St. are each two-lane, one-way roads with brisk-moving traffic averaging 548 cars an hour for a total of 9.6 million vehicles annually in each direction. Nonetheless, the downtown remains extremely pedestrian friendly.

The downtown also boasts a transit center, a free local shuttle looping around the downtown area and into East Aberdeen, and a regional Tesla super charging station. Our transit center is known as Aberdeen Station and serves as a major hub for local and regional bus routes.

There is freight rail running through the southern part of downtown and on eastward.

The Maps on this page are by Stamen Design and are being used under CC BY 3.0. Map Data by OpenStreetMap, under ODbL. They have been edited by Doreen Traylor.