Day trips
Towns, museums & history
Walla Walla, Pendleton, Toppenish murals, Maryhill and small-town main streets.
Drive times are from the Cable Bridge between Kennewick and Pasco and assume normal traffic and dry roads. Check WSDOT pass reports in winter.
Downtown Pendleton
An Old West ranch town over the Oregon line, home of the Pendleton Round-Up, an underground tour of its historic tunnels, and the original Pendleton woolen mill.
Downtown Walla Walla
A walkable downtown an hour away with more than 20 wine tasting rooms within a few blocks, restaurants, shops and historic buildings.
Fort Simcoe Historical State Park
An 1856 Army fort in a grove of oaks on the Yakama Reservation, with original officers’ quarters and a picnic lawn.
Fort Walla Walla Museum
A regional history museum on the grounds of a 19th-century fort, with five exhibit halls, a 33-mule wheat harvest display and a 17-building pioneer village.
Goldendale Observatory State Park
A hilltop observatory with one of the nation’s largest public telescopes and dark skies above Goldendale.
Historic Dayton
A small Blue Mountains town with the oldest train depot in Washington and the state’s oldest working courthouse, on the way to Bluewood and the Tucannon.
Maryhill Museum of Art
Sam Hill’s mansion-turned-museum on a bluff above the Columbia Gorge, with a surprising art collection, sculpture-dotted grounds and a café.
Maryhill Stonehenge Memorial
A full-size concrete replica of Stonehenge, built by Sam Hill as the nation’s first World War I memorial, on a bluff above the Columbia.
Toppenish Murals and Railway Museum
A small Yakama Valley town covered in 75 hand-painted historical murals, plus the Northern Pacific Railway Museum in its 1911 depot.
Whitman Mission National Historic Site
A National Park Service site west of Walla Walla about the 1836 mission, the Cayuse people and the events of 1847, with walking paths and an overlook.
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