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Coast Starlight — Los Angeles ↔ Seattle (illustration)
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Coast Starlight

Los Angeles ↔ Seattle

Route
Los Angeles ↔ Seattle
Distance
2,217 km · 1,377 mi
Audio stories
106
In the app
Both directions · Works offline

Watch the journey

A short film of the line — the views the guide narrates as they pass your window. English captions in the player.

Route map

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Illustrated route map of the Coast Starlight with stations, distances, and journey highlights
The route in text
Route
Los Angeles ↔ Seattle, USA
Distance
2,217 km · 1,377 mi
Audio stories
106, narrated in both directions of travel, fully offline
On the map
Illustrated route map of the Coast Starlight with stations, distances, and journey highlights. Station names and distance markers are printed on the map itself.

About this journey

Ride the West Coast end to end on the Coast Starlight, from Los Angeles to Seattle. The train hugs the Pacific surf along the Central Coast, climbs into the Cascades past volcano country, and threads valleys, forests, and city waterfronts across California, Oregon, and Washington — one night aboard, two days of window scenery.

As on every route, stories are triggered by GPS as you reach each place, play in either direction of travel, and work fully offline once you've downloaded the journey. The app even tells you which side of the train to look.