Peace Arch

The Peace Arch is a white memorial gateway that stands directly on the U.S.-Canada border between Blaine, Washington, and Surrey, British Columbia, straddling the line at the western end of the longest undefended border in the world. Dedicated in 1921, it celebrates the lasting peace between the two countries, with inscriptions reading "Children of a Common Mother" and "Brethren Dwelling Together in Unity."

It sits beside the busy Pacific Highway crossing, one of the main gateways between western Washington and the Vancouver region, and is surrounded by a binational park where, in normal times, people can mingle freely on either side of the boundary without formally crossing. Half in each country, the arch is an unusually hopeful kind of border landmark - a monument not to division but to the friendship between neighbors.

• Washington
  The Evergreen State, the wet and dry sides of the Cascades related