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The Peace Arch City, Blaine, Washington, nestles in the northwest corner of Washington State on the U.S. and Canada's busiest border crossing. With a population within the city limits of 4,115, and an extended community population of approximately 11,000, Blaine offers small town charm with maritime and international influences. Available properties run the gamut from starter homes to high-end waterfront and waterview real estate. Everyone is welcome in Blaine. Some of Blaine's prime attractions include a quaint and quirky main street, a harbor that berths everything from workboats to yachts, and the beautifully-landscaped 40 acre U.S.-Canadian public landscape of Peace Arch International Park, centerpiece of which is the breathtaking 67-foot-high International Peace Arch Monument. The saltwater shores of Blaine and the nearby communities of Semiahmoo and Birch Bay offer some of the best bird watching in the Pacific Northwest, particularly for brandt geese and other migratory birds, and Blaine's April Wings Over Water Festival offers viewing stations, seminars, exhibits and walking tours. Other annual events include a summer jazz festival, an Old Fashioned Fourth of July with street fair, car show and parade, a summer maritime festival, and free summer rides on the historic Plover foot ferry to Semiahmoo Spit, home of Semiahmoo's world class resort and an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, as well as a public access waterfront park. Peace Arch Park, which straddles the border and is jointly maintained by the U.S. and Canada, offers its own slate of annual events, including an international summer sculpture exhibition, and Hands Across the Border, a ceremony in which, every year hundreds of veterans, Boy and Girl Scouts, Camp Fire youth and Girl Guides, gather in the name of international peace and understanding.
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