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Cascades, the Winthrop area
offers a wealth of outdoor
recreation possibilities.
E Shafer Museum
285 Castle Ave. Tel (509) 996-2712.
Open May–Sep: 10am–5pm daily. &
by donation. ∑ shafermuseum.com

Horseback riders enjoying the scenery along a Winthrop trail a Spokane
o Winthrop home to the Winthrop Town Road map 1 C2. * 208,000.
k Spokane International Airport.
Hall, is still standing, as is n 808 W Main Ave, 1-888-SPOKANE.
Road map 1 B1. * 350.
n 202 Hwy 20, (509) 996-2125. Waring’s pioneer log house, ∑ visitspokane.com
∑ winthropwashington.com which sits on the grounds of
the Shafer Museum, along Washington’s largest inland city,
The Wild West lives on in with other relics from the past. Spokane is the commerce and
Winthrop. In the spring or fall, By the 1960s, Winthrop culture center for the Inland
more than one astonished resembled any other small, Northwest. Founded in 1873
traveler has witnessed a non-descript town in the by real estate developer James
genuine cattle drive – right American West before its Nettle Glover, the city suffered
down the main street. merchants, eager to revive the a disastrous fire in 1889. It
The town was founded in 1891 local economy, “renovated” responded by rebuilding in brick
by Guy Waring, a Boston-bred the town to give it an Old West and terracotta. Many handsome
businessman whose Winthrop ambience. A popular overnight reminders of the building boom
enterprises included the Duck and vacation destination for remain. Regional history is
Brand Saloon. The saloon, now tourists exploring the North show cased at the Northwest
p Grand Coulee Dam VISITORS’ CHECKLIST

Considered one of the modern engineering wonders of the world, Practical Information
Grand Coulee Dam is the world’s second-largest concrete dam, the Road map 1 C2. Tel (509) 633-
largest hydroelectric dam in North America, and the sixth-largest 9265. Open daily. Jun & Jul:
producer of electricity in the world. Spanning the mighty Columbia 8:30am–11pm; Aug: 8:30am–
River – the seventh-largest river in the US – it generates more 10:30pm; Sep: 8:30am–9:30pm;
power than a million locomotives, supplying electricity Oct–May: 9am–5pm. 8
to 11 western states. Construction of the dam began
in 1933 and took over nine years. The dam Irrigation Canal Twelve irrigation
was built primarily to supply irrigation pipes at the canal
water to eastern Washington, where headworks pump
water to lakes
inadequate rainfall threatened the and reservoirs.
livelihood of the region’s farmers.
The dam, nearly 1 mile
(1.5 km) long, towers
Inside The power plants almost 550 ft (152 m)
above bedrock.
house the generators
the Dam and turbines.
The spillway doubles
as a screen in summer
for spectacular nightly
Trash- laser shows.
racks
prevent
debris Columbia River
from
entering Four gantry cranes
the generators. are located on the dam The concrete poured
to move heavy equipment. to build the dam
amounts to almost
12 million cubic yards
(9 million cubic m) –
Lake Roosevelt enough to build a
4-ft- (1-m-) wide
A third power plant features three of the sidewalk twice
largest hydro generators in the world. around the equator.
For hotels and restaurants see pp288–90 and pp300–2
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