This past Sunday, I left my house intending to go on an hour jaunt around town, get out of the apartment for a while, and eventually make my way back to Safeway for a stock me up of groceries.
Too bad things didn’t end up that way.
A few hours later, I emerged from the beautiful grey cloud cover west of the Cascades andwas greated by the sun and sparesely beautiful high desert and farmland near Goldendale, WA . Not wanting to put in the extreme amount of time to head up to Yakima and through the White Pass – or wanting to explore further into southeast Washington – I decided to turn back onto State Route 142 and ended up being pretty much amazed at what I saw.
St. Route 142 meanders for several miles west of Goldendale through farm and ranch land, but you get about a mile or two past Blockhouse Butte and find the road descending sharply into a decently deep but rather narrow canyon or gorge carved out by the Klickitat River.
The next 15-20 miles are spent with me slackjawed at the sheer beauty of what I’m seeing.
About the Klickitat River
The Klickitat River feeds off of collossal Mt. Adams in southern Washington.
Tags: Rivers, Scenic Drives