If you love science and history, then this tour is for you. Start this family-friendly adventure at the REACH Museum in Richland, Washington, which includes engaging exhibits on the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Then drive to Rodney Block Park, to picnic and see Manhattan Project-era homes where project scientists and engineers lived. Then take a tour at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which was built to detect gravitational wave vibrations from outer space. End your trip with a quick stop at the USS Triton Sail Park near the Columbia River. There, you can see the sail of the first nuclear-powered submarine that circumnavigated the globe while staying submerged, a feat made possible by nuclear technology developed at Hanford for the Manhattan Project.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service