Palouse Scenic Byway
Details
- Designation State Byway
- Location WA
- Length 208 miles
Overview
The Palouse Scenic Byway isn’t a tidy point-A-to-point-B affair—there’s simply too much dynamic landscape here to be traversed by one road. Rather, this byway is a 208-mile multi-route ramble through a region of southeast Washington known for rolling hills and bucolic beauty.
Points of Interest
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Palouse Falls State Park
A remnant of the ice-age floods and Washington State's Official Waterfall, Palouse Falls drops from a height of 198-feet, with high volumes of water flow in spring and early summer. Palouse Falls State Park is a 105-acre camping park with a unique geology and history. The park offers a dramatic view of one of the state's most beautiful waterfalls.
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Palouse Falls State Park Heritage Site | Washington State Parks
Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site is a four-acre day-use park in Rosalia. The site commemorates an 1858 battle between U.S. Army forces led by Colonel Edward Steptoe and several Native American tribes from eastern Washington.
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Barron Flour Mill
The Barron Flour Mill, owned and operated by the Joseph Barron family for almost a century and now owned by MaryJane Butters, is the only intact flour mill remaining on the Palouse. Flour mills were built between 1870-1910 in two dozen Palouse communities, in both Whitman County, Washington, and Latah County, Idaho. Now only the Oakesdale mill remains, the best preserved flour mill in eastern Washington.
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Steptoe Butte
High above the Palouse Hills on the southeastern edge of Washington, Steptoe Butte offers unparalleled views of a unique landscape. The warm quartzite bluff stands out against soft hills of green and mauve, and an occasional barn dots the landscape.
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Roy Chatters Newspaper Museum
The Roy Chatters Museum takes visitors back in time, to the life of a printer in the 1880’s. Visitors can handset type and see the 1887 "finger snapper" press in operation.
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Pullman
Home to Washington State University. Visit a few of Pullman's unique shops, galleries, and boutiques, then enjoy a visit at the Grizzly Bear Research Center and a taste of Cougar Gold Cheese at Ferdinand's.
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Boyer Park and Lower Granite Dam
Boyer Park & Marina is located on the scenic Snake River, 20 miles Southeast of Pullman, Washington, and offers many kinds of recreational enjoyment, from fishing, boating, swimming, camping, picnicking to just spending a relaxing day on the sandy beach
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Dahmen Barn Wheel Fence
On US-195 near Uniontown, you'll see a unique rusty wheel fence surrounding a stately white barn. Frank Wolf, whose family still farms in Uniontown, built the barn in 1935 for Jack Dahmen and his family, who used it for a commercial dairy operation until 1953 when it was purchased by his nephew Steve Dahmen and wife Junette who converted it into an artisan workshop and gallery.
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Codger Pole
The Codger Pole, a 65-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture, commemorates a 1988 high school football rematch -- played fifty years after the first game, by the same participants. Colfax lost to St. John in 1938, but won the rematch.
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