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eric on Mar 28th 2009 at 3:18 am Around Washington, Travel

A day to find the Yellowstone Trail in Washington

Yesterday, Smartz and I took to the road to find the old Yellowstone Trail in western Washington.

Yellowstone Trail

The Yellowstone Trail was the “first” coast-to-coast highway in America. The idea for it was thought up in 1912 and pretty well completed in 1913. Now, the Yellowstone Trail, like many large roads of that time, didn’t create roads. It used pre-existing roads.

Route 66, at first, did the same thing.

Old Yellowstone TrailMany places have recently marked this old trail though it only existed till 1930. However, the trail wasn’t marked much at all in Washington. We didn’t see a sign all day (though, ten feet of snow may have blocked a sign or two).

The Yellowstone Trail put its name mostly on Washington’s Sunset Highway and Inland Empire Highway (at least the parts we were on today).

Interstates I-90 and I-82 cover most of that area now. But those aren’t as fun.

I took a lot of pictures and have captioned them, detailing where we were and pretty well how to get there. If you’re not at all interested in that, the scenery is beautiful, so you might enjoy it.

If you have any questions or have any corrections to make about my theories on the Yellowstone Trail in Washington, please feel free to add what you can, I would really appreciate it.

Click here to see the pics.

If you want to see a basic map of the travels, click here (takes you to GoogleMaps).



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  3. Washington doesn’t seem to care about its history
  4. Ring around Rainier – Planning a three day romp through Washington
  5. Finding Spencer, Washington – A missing ghost town no more!

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Comment by Ryan BeggarNo Gravatar
2009-03-28 10:03:01

Wow this looks like a fun day. as soon as it gets warm we have to hit the olympics and the north cascades. i got a hankerin’ for some trippin’.

the good kind. not the hippy kind. hippies is monsters.

 
Comment by ericNo Gravatar
2009-03-28 10:54:01

There’s a road right next to the one that we took yesterday that I’m dying to try, but can’t in the car. Maybe the scooter could make it (which seems odd to say, but I’ve taken the Vespa on roads I’d never take a car).

The desert in the spring, I heard, is beautiful. I’d love that.

But mountains are always fun – except winter. We shall conquer (in a nice way)!

 
Comment by RatiNo Gravatar
2009-03-28 16:03:03

It wouldn’t let me see the pictures! :-(

Comment by ericNo Gravatar
2009-03-28 16:21:26

Try it again, I was messing with things.

I think you’ll like these. Fun!

 
 

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