WSDOT Made a Welcome Map for FIFA Soccer Fans, and It Is Hilarious

WSDOT posted a "highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map" of Washington state this week, and it is the best piece of government content of the World Cup so far.

Leave it to the Washington State Department of Transportation to welcome tens of thousands of international soccer fans to the state with a hand-drawn map that is equal parts helpful and completely unhinged.

I love every part of it, even if some is not that accurate.

Map of Eastern Washington Gets the Most of the Important Stuff Right

Over on the east side of the Cascades, WSDOT has its priorities straight. Wheat fields, accurate. Grapes, accurate. Onions, accurate. Cool rocks just north of the Tri-Cities, honestly, fair, the Columbia River basalt formations are genuinely worth mentioning. I was born and have lived all my life on the eastern side, and most of that is correct. Some of the maps might be a bit off, however.

There is a Bigfoot sighting marked near Colville in the northeast corner of the state. Who knew Bigfoot was out there? I grew up in Spokane and thought they were mostly on the west side. Another thing I thought was weird was that cherries appear near Davenport in the north-central part of the state.

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Honestly, that is a little geographically generous since most of the Washington cherry country is closer to Yakima and the Wenatchee valley. I guess that is close enough for a hand-drawn map welcoming soccer fans.

The West Side Is Where It Gets Really Good

Seattle is accurately labeled "soccer busy busy busy" with arrows pointing in every direction, a perfect summary of what the city looks like right now with World Cup matches underway. I have a few friends who live in the area, and they say traffic is crazy around the city.

There is a large V drawn between the mountains captioned "you can't do it all in one day", solid advice for any international visitor trying to see everything in one stop. Washington State is BIG. Good luck seeing it all in a month, let alone in a weekend.

The vampires get a shoutout with the Twilight filming location marked for fans who want their cinematic Pacific Northwest experience. The Sound gets "cinematic ferrie moments", and the mountains are labeled "explodey mountains", a reference to Mount St. Helens, Adams, and Rainier.

The Best Detail on the Whole Map

A circle around Vancouver, Washington, with an arrow pointing to it and the caption, "not Canada."
For international soccer fans flying in and seeing Vancouver on a map for the first time, that clarification is probably an important public service.

Well done, WSDOT, love the map. Welcome to Washington, everybody.

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