The Yellowstone Trail in Washington

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=47 style=" border-bottom: 3px solid #FF9900;" BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>The Yellowstone Trail in Washington</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=162 style="border-right: 3px solid #FF9900;" BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone Trail"><B><IMG SRC="30164140.png" border=0 width="100" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone TrailState by State"><B>The YT, state-by-state</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The YT in WA</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id182.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Washington MilebyMile "><B>WA </B></A><A HREF="id182.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Washington MilebyMile "><B>Mile-by-Mile</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Washington YTA Map"><B>WA State Map</B></A><A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Historic Washington YTA Map"><B>s</B></A></div> <div> <B>WA Detailed Maps</B></div> <div>    (Under construction)</div> <div> <A HREF="google_wash.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Google Map YT Washington"><B>Special YT maps on Google Maps</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=433 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06100c00egerdp.jpg"> <div> As the founders of the Yellowstone Trail extended the Trail to the west, they were confronted with finding a route to Washington across the Bitterroots at the Montana/Idaho border.  There were no roads near Lookout Pass, the logical route along the railroad.  The burgeoning mining district around Mullan and Wallace Idaho also needed a route across the Bitterroots and around 1914 the Randolph Creek/Mullan Pass road was developed.  The Association immediately routed the Trail on that route into Spokane.  Then they faced the problem of a useable route to Seattle.  The Wenatchee, Blewett Pass,  Snoqualmie Pass route would be the shorter, but Blewett Pass was years from being an adequate auto route.  The considerably longer Spokane, Walla Walla, Yakima, Snoqualmie Pass route was chosen because of its "good" roads and it scenic value.  Not until 1925 was the route moved north to the Blewett Pass route when that Pass became reasonably useable.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Yellowstone Trail intersects the </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/54772/ " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/547"><B>Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway</B></A></FONT><B> in Coulee City, Washington.</B></div> <div> <B>  <IMG SRC="296c8a40.png" border=0 width="200" height="164" ALT="Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 Image" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Meander through ancient coulees and imagine walls of water hundreds of feet deep churning the rocks and soil gouging these now dry canyons, leaving behind erratic rocks of all sizes and types as silent artifacts of roaring torrents. Observe a jewel-like lake, where mule deer and peregrine falcons live nearby.  Length: 150.0 miles / 241.4 km    Time to Allow: 3.5 hours to drive this byway.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>