Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Darrington, WA

Darrington is a town in Snohomish County, set in a North Cascades mountain valley formed by the Sauk and North Fork Stillaguamish rivers.

Non-indigenous settlement began in 1891 at the site of a Skagit campsite between the two rivers, near the traditional home of the Sauk-Suiattle tribe.

The town's name was chosen by a tied settler vote in July 1891 — Darrington, the maiden name of settler W. W. Cristopher's mother, beat out Portage, and some accounts say it was meant to be Barrington before a postal error changed it.

Whitehorse Mountain, the peak looming over town, was named for a horse belonging to Fred Olds, the town's first postmaster.

A Northern Pacific Railway branch line reached Darrington in 1901, and logging quickly replaced prospecting as the town's dominant industry for much of the 20th century.

During the Great Depression, Camp Darrington of the Civilian Conservation Corps built roads, trails, and fire lookout towers in the surrounding Mount Baker National Forest, including work on the Mountain Loop Highway.

Waves of Appalachian emigrants from western North Carolina settled in Darrington during and after World War II, and their musical heritage lives on in the town's culture.

The Darrington Bluegrass Festival, established in 1977 and held each July at the Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater, is one of the longest-running bluegrass festivals in the Pacific Northwest and draws several thousand attendees.

Darrington was incorporated as a town on October 15, 1945, after residents voted 96–60 in favor.

The 2020 census counted 1,462 people in Darrington living in 607 households.