Top rated Tourist attractions in University Place, United States to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Tourist attractions in University Place

Experience the best that University Place 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 78 places from Tourist attraction category.

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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) (~9.91 km from centre)

Chambers Creek Regional Park

Park

👍👍 This place is really nice. Though the bridge has an incline, the rest of the park around is very friendly for people with all walking abilities because of how flat the area is with a paved walking trail that can lead up to the bridge. There is also an off leash dog park that has separate big dog/lit...

4.80 (1K reviews) (~2.83 km from centre)

Chambers Creek Regional Park

Park

👍👍 This place I think is the best park yet, that we have found

4.80 (638 reviews) (~3.28 km from centre)

Chambers Bay Loop Trail Head

Hiking area

👍👍 First time here, had a great walk with our pooch. Definitely recommend this walk for nice day. There is a great blacktop trail where you could easily get in a four mile walk. There is a pretty hood elevation gain if a semi easy climb is what you like. Lots of open space for the whole family.

4.80 (608 reviews) (~3.27 km from centre)

Tacoma Fireboat No. 1

Historical landmark

👍 Great place for photos

4.80 (36 reviews) (~8.6 km from centre)

LeMay - America’s Car Museum

Museum

4-story museum on an 8-acre campus displays cars, trucks & motorcycles in historic & tech exhibits.

4.70 (3.7K reviews) (~8.56 km from centre)

Fort Steilacoom Park

Park

Large area with baseball, softball & soccer fields, plus hiking paths, play sets & a dog park.

4.70 (1.8K reviews) (~4.54 km from centre)

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) (~9.52 km from centre)

Fort Steilacoom Dog Park

Dog park

👍👍 For lack of another park label on google maps I will include this description here. This is a great park in addition to the dog park. There are many dirt trails and a paved loop around the lake. There are interpretive signs and a trail map. There is plenty of parking in a stone lot and also some pav...

4.70 (932 reviews) (~5.04 km from centre)

Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park

Park

Waterfront park created as an appeasement for the violent expulsion of Chinese residents in 1885.

4.70 (698 reviews) (~8.88 km from centre)

Tacoma Nature Center

Nature preserve

A 71-acre tract of wetlands & forest around Snake Lake, featuring trails & a visitors center.

4.70 (696 reviews) (~4.56 km from centre)

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) (~8.48 km from centre)

Chambers Bay Golf Course

Public golf course

This public course designed by renowned golf architect Robert Trent Jones Jr has hosted the US Open.

4.70 (617 reviews) (~2.92 km from centre)

Saltar's Point Beach

Park

👍👍 Awesome little local beach with grit and history! Parking is limited and in a residential neighborhood, you walk across a caged bride over the train tracks and walk down a flight of stairs to access the beach. There's a covered picnic area and cool old rusty stuff, rocky beach, view of the Narrows...

4.70 (561 reviews) (~7.59 km from centre)

Pioneer Orchard Park

Park

👍👍 We got married here in 2015. The park is absolutely beautiful. The views of the sound, narrows bridge, fox island, McNeil island, everything. It's the perfect place to go on a sunny summer day. It's a great park to get married in. We had our reception at the rec center up the hill. Everything was...

4.70 (473 reviews) (~6.52 km from centre)

Cummings Park

Park

👍👍 Great public waterway, the best in Tacoma

4.70 (398 reviews) (~8.77 km from centre)

Fox Island Historical Society

Museum

Small historical musuem featuring island artifacts & photographs, plus a rustic, circa 1908 cabin.

4.70 (62 reviews) (~6.71 km from centre)

Buffalo Soldiers Museum

History museum

👍👍 This museum is a must see! I learned so much about the Buffalo Soldiers. I'm grateful that this museum exists. Going to Tacoma was worth it.

4.70 (48 reviews) (~6.7 km from centre)

Job Carr Cabin Museum

Museum

A to-scale replica of an 1865 frontier home, this museum offers history exhibits about the city.

4.70 (47 reviews) (~8.42 km from centre)

Historic Fort Steilacoom

Historical place museum

👍👍 Fort Steilacoom's beginning started with the massacre at the Whitman Mission in 1847. An attack by the Cayuse murdered Dr Marcus and Narcissa Whitman plus eleven others. In response, the US Army established Fort Steilacoom in 1849. Located near Lake Steilacoom, Fort Steilacoom became one of the fir...

4.70 (46 reviews) (~4.5 km from centre)

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Top rated Tourist attractions in University Place, United States