Washington State is Twilight zone

Hidden among rainforests and away from the rocky beaches of the Pacific is an unassuming logging town that only the occasional tourist might pass through.


At least, that's what the community of Forks, Washington, was until author Stephenie Meyer used it as the location for her phenomenally successful vampire series Twilight.

Since 2005 Twilight fans have helped transform Forks with its new booming tourist trade.


Restaurants and bars hurriedly renamed themselves after the books' characters and gift shops replaced the town's existing stores.

Now tours have sprung up from all around the area, taking in Twilight references — but not forgetting the rest of the Olympic Peninsula, where Forks is located, in the Pacific North-West. The peninsula, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, has mountains, lakes and lush meadow, much of which is Native American reservation land.

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