Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead
· 1.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine a place where Native American traditions met Christianity, right here on the Columbia River. This is the story of the Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead. In the 1890s, Henry Gulick, who worked for the…
Fort Dalles
· 1.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Ever wonder why The Dalles was so strategically important? This spot, Fort Dalles, was the key. Established as Camp Drum, later Fort Drum, and finally Fort Dalles, this U.S. Army outpost became vital in the 1850s during…
Celilo Falls: Fifteen Thousand Years of Fishing, Gone in Hours
· 9.1 mi · Historical
Celilo Falls was the oldest continuously inhabited site in North America, where Native peoples fished for salmon for 15,000 years — until The Dalles Dam drowned it all in four and a half hours on March 10, 1957.
Columbia River Gorge: The River That Cut Through Mountains
· 19.4 mi · Historical Marker
The Columbia River Gorge stretches 80 miles through the Cascade Range, the only sea-level passage through the mountain chain, carved by catastrophic Ice Age floods.
Columbia River Gorge
· 19.4 mi · Things to Do
A canyon carved by ancient mega-floods. Waterfalls everywhere along the historic highway.