The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival offers a stunning display for tourists coming worldwide to visit the flower fields. Timing your trip, however, can be a delicate art. When the tulips will reach their full bloom depends on Mother Nature.

For those looking to embrace a core aspect of the Dutch lifestyle, Tulip Country Bike Tours offer bike rentals to ride around Skagit Valley for $40 per adult and $10 per child. Visitors can arrange for a guide to lead up to a 10-person tour for an additional $20 per person.

Washington’s Skagit Valley bursts into color each spring as millions of tulips blanket the countryside in a painterly patchwork of pinks, purples, yellows, and reds. What began as a humble farming tradition has become one of the most celebrated floral events in the United States.