I-90 Wildlife Crossing Structures

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Snoqualmie Pass offers a connecting link for highway traffic moving east to west—and an ecological bottleneck for wildlife moving north to south. Between 2013 and 2018, the Washington State Department of Transportation built a series of 27 wildlife crossings (most of which are underpasses) as part of Phase 1 of a major reconstruction of...

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The Roslyn Historic Cemeteries land (nearly 15 acres) was donated by or purchased from the Northern Pacific Railroad beginning in 1887. Roslyn and the neighboring town of Cle Elum grew around coal mines developed to fuel the Northern Pacific Railroad. Over nearly 100 years of extraction, the mines of Roslyn and Cle Elum produced...

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Lake Keechelus offers fishing, boating, picnicking, and a trailhead for the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. Find additional information on fishing here from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. The lake, which sits at the headwaters of the Yakima River, was the site of a summer fishing camp for the Kittitas band...

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The historic salmon runs of the Cle Elum River – and the Tribes who depend on them – were decimated by dam construction in the early 1900s. The annual returns of five species of salmon (spring/summer/fall Chinook, sockeye, and coho) dropped from nearly one million to approximately 8,000, with three runs becoming extirpated by...

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The Rat Pac trail features a premier, bike only, fast, single track, 4-mile downhill. Park at the Howard Carlin Memorial Trailhead Park in Cle Elum, bike northwest on the Coal Mines Trail, and turn right on Alliance Road. Take the road up to the Main Ridge Road then return via the Rat Pac.

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Near the high alpine lakes and streams of Salmon La Sac, the Kittitas band of the Yakama Tribe set up summer camps for fishing, hunting, and collecting berries. French fur trappers coined the name “Salmon la Sac” in the mid-1800s to describe the way native people caught salmon in huge baskets woven of cedar bark. In the...

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The Eastrail will ultimately become a 42-mile uninterrupted multi-use trail connecting the cities of Renton, Bellevue, Kirkland (where the trail is also called the Cross Kirkland Corridor), Woodinville, and Snohomish. In 2023, open sections include: a seven mile segment from Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton north to Coal Creek Parkway; and a...

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The 17 mile Cedar River Trail stretches from Renton upriver to the  Landsburg Reach Natural Area and Seattle’s Cedar River Watershed. Paved for the first 12 miles from Renton, the trail features a wide compacted-gravel surface for the last five. Near Maple Valley the trail intersects the Green-to-Cedar Rivers Trail before continuing to the...

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This 12 mile route – some paved, some gravel – includes segments often referred to separately as the Issaquah-Preston Trail and the Preston Snoqualmie Trail. On the Issaquah end, one can quickly connect to the East Lake Sammammish Trail. Note that the trail currently terminates at a turnaround spot on its eastern end before...