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The Dalles, Oregon

Everything The Dalles is known for

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Music in The Dalles

Songs About The Dalles

No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Sufjan Stevens
54%
"Drag me to hell in the valley of The Dalles"
Roll on Columbia
Woody Guthrie
22%
"Fighting the Rapids Cascades and Dalles"

Artists From The Dalles

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Rivers & Roads in Song near The Dalles

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near The Dalles.

History of The Dalles

Celilo Falls: Fifteen Thousand Years of Fishing, Gone in Hours

1957

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.

9.1 mi away

Columbia River Gorge: The River That Cut Through Mountains

1986

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.

19.4 mi away

Things to Do in The Dalles

Everything Near The Dalles

5 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • 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.

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