The Palouse is becoming famous for biking with everything from 35 miles of paved bike paths to full-on single track mountain biking, and some great hilly low traffic road riding. The land hosts waterfalls and sudden valleys. Magnificent buttes give way to panoramic views, and the horizon seems to go on forever. A remnant of the ice-age floods and Washington State's Official Waterfall, Palouse Falls drops from a height of feet with high volumes of water flow in spring and early summer.
Palouse Falls State Park is a acre camping park with a unique geology and history. The park offers a dramatic view of one of the state's most beautiful waterfalls. The Codger Pole, a foot-tall chainsaw sculpture, commemorates a high school football rematch -- played fifty years after the first game, by the same participants.
Colfax lost to St. John in , but won the rematch. The site commemorates a battle between U. The growing college town is lively just about every night of the week, with everything from sports bars and breweries to dance clubs and fine dining. Its unique location and atmosphere is reason enough to check it out, but the great food and drink options will keep you around for a while. After that, check out Esti Bravo off Main Street to dance off the calories from that burger and beer, and enjoy city-style cocktails in a moody and eclectic environment.
Looking for fine dining instead of that burger? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Exploring The Palouse. Palouse Dining If you head toward the small town of Palouse to the north, there are two wise stops to make. Wind turbines also work well as foregrounds for the Milky Way though you'll need to find a turbine that isn't spinning. The wind farm area is well above the surrounding terrain so good overlook shots are also possible.
The Palouse is also home to a great many abandoned homes, barns, and grain elevators. Do not enter these without permission. Do not walk into fields currently growing or not , without permission of the farmer. Please respect the property of others. The farmers in the Palouse are very friendly, however tourism to the area is rapidly growing and poor behavior will strees the patience of even the easiest going.
When photographing abandoned structures try to include objects in the foreground such as mailboxes, wildflowers, or telephone poles. Use plantings and furrows as leading lines, in their absence roads, railroad tracks, and telephone lines will work. Watch your depth of field, you may need to focus bracket to get everything sharp. If you cannot find good foreground or leading lines a good sky can save the image, in this case the abandoned structure becomes the foreground and the sky the background.
When you have a great sky include lots of it, otherwise just include a small strip, or eliminate the sky completely. Other good photo sites include Colfax Bridge which is best at sunrise when fog is often present, Palouse Falls which is best mid-afternoon, and the bald eagle on N Palouse Rd.
I have seen an eagle on N Palouse Rd in both and in , since eagles often live to twenty years it is likely the same one. A long lens and teleconverter is needed. Palouse is normally visited between May and August. In May and early June one finds a mix of green fields and fields that were just planted.
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