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Washington State Route 821. State Route 821 ( SR 821) is a state highway in central Washington state. It runs for 25 miles (40 km) through the Yakima Canyon, following the meandering Yakima River between Selah and Ellensburg. Both ends of the highway are at interchanges with Interstate 82 (I-82) and U.S. Route 97 (US 97).
The Yakima River is a tributary of the Columbia River in south central and eastern Washington state, named for the indigenous Yakama people. Lewis and Clark mention in their journals that the Chin-nâm pam (or the Lower Snake River Chamnapam Nation) called the river Tâpe têtt [6] (also rendered Tapteete), [7] possibly from the French tape-tête, meaning "head hit".
Umtanum Ridge Water Gap is a geologic feature in Washington state in the United States. It includes the Yakima Canyon (or " Yakima River Canyon "), and is located between the cities of Ellensburg and Yakima in central Washington. [1] Washington State Route 821 (formerly numbered "U.S. Route 97") was once the main route between Ellensburg and ...
Yakima Indian Painted Rocks. Indian Painted Rocks is a tiny state park (approximately 2,000 sq ft (200 m 2 )) right outside Yakima, Washington at the intersection of Powerhouse and Ackely Roads. The Indian rock paintings, also known as pictographs are on a cliff of basaltic rocks parallel to the current Powerhouse road which was once an Indian ...
Apr. 3—A ranch property and popular boat launch in the Yakima River Canyon are now in public hands. The Bureau of Land Management announced this week that it has taken ownership of 647 acres in ...
Former. ← SR 821. → SR 900. State Route 823 ( SR 823) is a state highway in Yakima County, Washington, United States. It runs for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) from an interchange with U.S. Route 12 (US 12) and through the city of Selah to a junction with SR 821. A portion of the highway runs in the median of Interstate 82 (I-82), its parent route, as ...
U.S. Route 97 ( US 97) in the U.S. state of Washington is a 322-mile (518 km) route which traverses from the Oregon state line at the northern end of the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge in Maryhill, north to the Canada–US border in Okanogan County near Oroville. The highway serves major cities such as Goldendale, Yakima, Ellensburg and Wenatchee ...
Yakima (/ ˈ j æ k ɪ m ɑː / or / ˈ j æ k ɪ m ə /) is a city in, and the county seat of, Yakima County, Washington, United States, and the state's 11th most populous city.As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. [3]