FORKS — A second company is offering tours of the Forks area for fans of Twilight.
The tours celebrate the fictional tale of Forks teenager Bella Swan and her supernatural suitors, Edward Cullen, a vampire, and Jacob Black, a werewolf.
The four books by author Stephenie Meyer have been best-sellers, and two movies — “Twilight” and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” — have been box office hits.
A third movie in the “Twilight Saga” will be released June 30.
Port Gamble couple
The tours will be run by Twilight Adventures owners Debbie Bennett and Randy Bennett, who live in Port Gamble.
They will compete with the tours by Dazzled by Twilight, the retailer which began offering tours on a reserved basis last year.
The new tours, which don’t require an RSVP, will be offered Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. each day.
Sunset tours will be an option later as the weather improves.
Tours will leave from the Forks Outfitters parking lot, 950 S. Forks Ave., said Bennett.
“[Forks Outfitters owner] Bert Paul has such an amazing store — that Bella worked at, by the way — and had a great parking lot in town where it is hard to find and so we were set up with a little piece of parking lot,” she said.
The Twilight Adventures tours will cost $40 and will be on a first-come, first-served basis, Bennett said.
The first official tour was offered Jan. 8.
Starting off slow
“Right now, we haven’t had a lot of people coming in, but Bert Paul assures us that as things start to ramp up we’ll have more interest,” she said.
Bennett and her husband have been visiting the Forks area for 17 years, she said.
“We’ve been coming to fish, and a while back, we saw all of the Twilight stuff and started to wonder about it,” she said.
“We realized that the tours in town were offered only on reservation, so we decided to start a business for those that maybe didn’t think about doing that ahead of time.”
Three-hour tours
The tours run up to three hours and include all of the Twilight hot spots in Forks, including Forks High School, Forks Community Hospital and Forks City Hall, where the police station is located, she said.
The groups will also have the option of visiting either LaPush or Rialto Beach.
For more information, phone 877-810-8687.
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Reporter Paige Dickerson can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at paige.dickerson@peninsuladaily news.com.
