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FINE IN WINTERTIME AS WELL – Roche Harbor Resort promotes itself as a four season resort. This fall photo captures the Hotel de Haro, center, and the Madrona Grill below it to the left. If you call, tell them you read about them in the La Conner Weekly News. – Photo courtesy of Roche Harbor Resort
First, Roche Harbor is the most exclusive of company towns. Second, Roche Harbor has always been a company town. Third, it is a great getaway any week of the year. And fourth, if you are a boater, you probably know all about the incredible, protected and peaceful harbor. I went as a tourist, on foot, boarding the ferry in Anacortes and taking a taxi (Roundabout, a Lions Club fundraising project) ten miles to the northwest corner of the island.
Yes, I traded lodging for this story. For single people, the resort’s Hotel de Haro, opened in 1886 and built around the original Hudson’s Bay Post, is...
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