SoCal to North Central Washington: 395 or 95?
Hoping to head to the Washington Pass/Rainy Pass area, and then later to Marblemount and then Mt. Baker. I am tired of Interstate 5 -- crowded, hilly, and bad pavement. I asked Google Maps, and I ...
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Confirmed - the Tri-Cities changes are bad. You get down to some local arterials between freeways. Trust your GPS!
82 through the Yakima valley is prime wine country with some hops fields along the way, but not much else. Napa valley can't top the wine quality. 97 Ellensburg up to Wenatchee is very good road and nice tree covered mountains. Have a beer in Leavenworth!
On the other hand 395/17 through Moses Lake is through range and scrub land. Dry Falls (biggest falls ever when it was wet), Steam Boat rock and Grand Coulee are worth seeing. (High cliffs carved in massive floods. ) Hanford Nuclear history is interesting and the Hanford Reach section of the Columbia is very nice.
Buy apples and peaches along the way. Wapato tomatoes and Walla Walla onions are world famous.
82 through the Yakima valley is prime wine country with some hops fields along the way, but not much else. Napa valley can't top the wine quality. 97 Ellensburg up to Wenatchee is very good road and nice tree covered mountains. Have a beer in Leavenworth!
On the other hand 395/17 through Moses Lake is through range and scrub land. Dry Falls (biggest falls ever when it was wet), Steam Boat rock and Grand Coulee are worth seeing. (High cliffs carved in massive floods. ) Hanford Nuclear history is interesting and the Hanford Reach section of the Columbia is very nice.
Buy apples and peaches along the way. Wapato tomatoes and Walla Walla onions are world famous.
