In hopes of boosting present-day tourism, Washington has updated a 1941 guidebook, A Guide to the Evergreen State, one of 48 produced by the Works Project Administration during the war years to employ writers, promote tourism and shore up pride in a nation bruised by the Great Depression.

The state's Revisiting Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State, is published on CD-ROM and updates the older tours with field notes, navigational tools such as global positioning system coordinates, old photographs, and radio and video clips. The guidebook is also downloadable at www.revisitingwashington.org.

The new multimedia guide includes, for example, directions to hidden hot springs near Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. Revisiting Washington cost $230,000 to produce. It was funded by a Federal Transportation Enhancement Grant and underwritten by the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development's Tourism Commission, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the state Parks and Recreation Commission.