Top rated Things to dos in Tacoma

Experience the best that Tacoma has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 117 places from Things to do category.

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La Paloma Tacoma
Gift shop
5.00 (32 reviews)
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Tinkertopia , LLC.
Art center
👍👍 If you’re the kind of person that saves knick-knacks for undetermined future arts and crafts projects, Tinkertopia is for you. It floor to ceiling eyecandy junk, very much “one person’s trash is another’s treasure” kinda place.Picked up a bunch of janky electronic parts, plastic piping, broken acryl...
4.90 (124 reviews)
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Rose Garden
Garden
👍👍 The garden just takes your breayh away. Its nice to spend an hour and sit just looking at them. Make sire to checj the weather before coming here so you can enjoy the place.
4.80 (1.3K reviews)
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Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park
Park
👍👍 It's my favorite place in town. I'm here just about every day. It's gorgeous.
4.80 (372 reviews)
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Dalco Passage Viewpoint
Scenic spot
👍👍 Walked the five mile drive this morning in the pouring rain. True Washingtonian style. Was fun. Viewpoint wasnice, clean and well kept.
4.80 (136 reviews)
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Stairs and Slides
Park
👍👍 Husband and I were just planning to rent the razors across the pedestrian bridge, but we couldn't resist the slides. The view from up top (pics 2&4) was beautiful, and I loved the bridge. (Last 2 pics on bridge.) The slides are obviously gonna have some wear from use, but they were clean and in perf...
4.80 (106 reviews)
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Tacoma Consignment
Furniture store
4.80 (102 reviews)
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Swan Creek Dog Park
Park
👍👍 Add this to the list of favorite parks in South Sound! Multiple double-gated entries, waste bags, trash cans, water fountain for the doggos, and restrooms for their humans. Level, paved pathways for humans through mixed terrain for the pups. Enjoy great sight-lines while getting to walk/roll in more...
4.80 (59 reviews)
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The Mountaineer Tree
Landmark
👍👍 Great place to start your hike or adventure around point defiance. Be sure to have All Trails or the Washington Trails Association app open before you arrive as cellular connection is iffy.
4.80 (46 reviews)
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Hidden Beach
Park
👍👍 Great little spot with some trails. Would recommend.
4.80 (37 reviews)
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Tacoma Fireboat No. 1
Historical landmark
👍 Great place for photos
4.80 (35 reviews)
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GlumDrop
Collectibles store
👍👍 This shop and it’s proprietor are amazing. Always something fantastic to see. You never know what you might find. This is the perfect place to find that incantation candle, an animal in a jar, that cup you never though you needed, a coffin, the corset that goes with your red crushed velvet gown. It’...
4.80 (33 reviews)
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Point Defiance Park
Park
Large park with the Point Defiance zoo & aquarium, hikes in an old-growth forest, gardens & beaches.
4.70 (15.2K reviews)
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LeMay - America’s Car Museum
Museum
4-story museum on an 8-acre campus displays cars, trucks & motorcycles in historic & tech exhibits.
4.70 (3.6K reviews)
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Owen Beach
Beach
Waterfront park with picnic shelters, grills, kayak rentals & views of Vashon Island.
4.70 (1.9K reviews)
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Point Ruston
Tourist attraction
👍👍 Nice area for everyone of all ages to walk around, eat, watch a movie, and enjoy the view. The sprinkler near the rocks turns on in the summer for the kids, and there’s also a playground. You can also rent bikes for the whole family to ride.
4.70 (1.1K reviews)
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Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park
Park
Waterfront park created as an appeasement for the violent expulsion of Chinese residents in 1885.
4.70 (698 reviews)
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Tacoma Nature Center
Nature preserve
A 71-acre tract of wetlands & forest around Snake Lake, featuring trails & a visitors center.
4.70 (696 reviews)
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W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory
Botanical garden
Victorian conservatory in Wright Park with a big historical greenhouse housing 500+ plant species.
4.70 (679 reviews)
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Titlow Park Sprayground
Park
👍👍 Nice place to visit with the family, enjoy vegetation, birds and native animal and flora.
4.70 (545 reviews)
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