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Tips for Drivers
3 Three Rivers 6 Dunham Cellars
In addition to its cellar and This winery is housed in Tour length: 14 miles (22.5 km).
tasting room, this winery a remodeled World War Starting point: US Highway 12
features three short holes of II-era airplane hangar. The near Lowden, 116 miles (187 km)
golf for its guests. surroundings may be stark, east of Yakima.
but the wines are worth When to go: Thu–Sat, when
4 Isenhower Cellars the visit. tasting rooms are open. (Times
Guests here can chat with vary depending on the season.)
the winemakers while Stopping-off points: Whitman
tasting a merlot or syrah. Spokane Mission, 7 miles (11 km) west
Walla of Walla Walla, is a good picnic
Walla spot. Walla Walla offers many
restaurants and a well-known
GOSE ROAD
deli, Olive Marketplace & Café,
Mill Creek for provisions.
WALLULA AVENUE
0 kilometers 3
5 Seven Hills 0 miles 2
The production facilities,
tasting room, and
LAST CHANCE ROAD
restaurant of this winery Key
are housed in the historic
Walla Walla River
Whitehouse-Crawford Tour route
building (1905). Other road
Highway 504 leads to five visitor
centers. The first is the Mount
St. Helens National Volcanic
Monument Visitor Center
(tel 360/274-0962), at exit
49 from Interstate 5, featuring
interpretive exhibits of
the mountain’s history. The
Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center
Mount St. Helens and surrounding area (tel 360/274-5200), at milepost
after the 1980 explosion 27, gives visitors their first full
view of Mount St. Helens and
rock into the air and causing offers helicopter tours into
the largest avalanche in the blast zone from May to
recorded history. In the blink September. The Forest Learning
of an eye, the mountain lost Center (tel 360/414-3439), The three-story bastion, dating from 1845,
1,314 ft (400 m), and 234 sq miles at milepost 33, open in the at Fort Vancouver
(606 sq km) of forestland were summer only, teaches about
destroyed. The eruption also reforestation efforts. Johnston giant fur-trading organization
claimed 57 human lives and Ridge Visitor Center (tel 360/ (see p42). Located close to
those of millions of animals 274-2140), at milepost 52, offers major tributaries and natural
and fish. a close-up view of the crater resources, it was the center
Following the eruption, the and lava dome. of political and commercial
US Congress created the activities in the Pacific
monument in order to allow the Northwest during these years.
environ ment to recover naturally k Fort Vancouver During the 1830s and 1840s,
and to encourage research, Road map 1 A3. Tel (360) 816-6230. the fort also provided essential
recreation, and education. NASA Open mid-Mar–Oct: 9am–5pm daily; supplies to settlers. A National
scientists have placed high-tech Nov–mid-Mar: 9am–4pm daily. Closed Historic Site, Fort Vancouver
monitoring devices inside the Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 24, 25 & 31. & features accurate reconstructions
volcanic crater to detect an 7 partial. 8 ∑ nps.gov/fova of nine of the original buildings,
impending eruption. including the jail, fur store,
Roads and trails allow visitors Between 1825 and 1849, this and wash house, all on their
to explore this fascinating was an important trading original sites. Guided tours and
region by car and on foot. outpost for British-based re-enactments offer a window
On the mountain’s west side, Hudson’s Bay Company, the into the fort’s past.
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