Hiking Washington's History
A trail guide for history buffs—and a history book for hikers

For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities.

In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include:

• 44 hikes, including 12 new additions

• Full-color trail maps

• A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events

• Updated trail descriptions

• Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives

• Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state

• Contemporary and historical photographs

Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.

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Hiking Washington's History
A trail guide for history buffs—and a history book for hikers

For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities.

In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include:

• 44 hikes, including 12 new additions

• Full-color trail maps

• A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events

• Updated trail descriptions

• Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives

• Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state

• Contemporary and historical photographs

Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.

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Overview

A trail guide for history buffs—and a history book for hikers

For thousands of years people have traveled across Washington’s spectacular terrain, establishing footpaths and roads to reach hunting grounds and coal mines high in the mountains, fishing sites and trade emporiums on the rivers, forests of old growth, and homesteads and towns on prairies. These traditional routes have been preserved in national parks, restored by cities and towns, salvaged from old railroad tracks, and opened to hikers by Indigenous communities.

In this new, full-color edition of the first-ever hiking guide to the state’s historic trails, historian and hiker Judy Bentley teams up with veteran guidebook author Craig Romano to lead adventurers of all abilities along trails on the coast, over mountains, through national forests, across plateaus, and on the banks of the Columbia River. Features include:

• 44 hikes, including 12 new additions

• Full-color trail maps

• A trails timeline that connects hikes to key events

• Updated trail descriptions

• Accounts from diaries, journals, and archives

• Historical overviews of 8 regions of the state

• Contemporary and historical photographs

Bentley and Romano offer an essential boots-on-the ground history of some of the state’s most fascinating places.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295748528
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 05/31/2021
Edition description: second edition
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 296,479
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Judy Bentley taught Pacific Northwest history at South Seattle College for more than twenty years and is an avid hiker and author of fifteen young adult books. Craig Romano is author or coauthor of more than twenty-five guidebooks, including 100 Classic Hikes: Washington (third edition), and many books in the Day Hiking and Urban Trails series.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

The Olympic Peninsula
1. Cape Flattery
2. lake Ozette to Capte Alava
3. Press Expedition, Elwah River
4. O'Neil Pass
5. Dodger Point Lookout

Puget Sound
6. Duwamish River
7. Medicine Creek Treaty Grounds
8. Elbey's Landing and Prarie
9. Coal Creek to Redtown

The North Cascades
10. Cascade Pass to Stehekin
11. Monte Cristo Townsite
12. Old Robe Canyon
13. Iron Goat Trail
14. Ladies Pass
15. Desolation Peak

The Central Cascades
16. Yakima Pass
17. Coal Mines Trail
18. Iron Horse Trail
19. Snoqualmie Wagon Road

The South Cascades
20. Kalama't: Indian Heaven and Racetrack
21. Klickitat Trail
22. Naches Pass
23. Indian Henry's Hunting Ground
24. Yacolt Burn
25. Mount St. Helens

Central Washington
26. Colockum Pass Road
27. The Grand Coulee and Steamboat Rock
28. Northrup Canyon
29. Coulee City Stagecouch Road
30. Lower Crab Creek

Northeastern Washington
31. Kettle Falls
32. Spokane Centennial Trail
33. Cariboo Trail
34. Columbia Peak

Southeastern Washington
35. Palouse Canyon
36. Chief Joseph's Summer Trail
37. Two Sisters / Two Captains
38. Mullan Road

The Lower Columbia River
39. Horsethief Lake
40. Columbia Hills
41. The Cascades
42. Cape Disappointment

Notes
Source Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Jack Nisbet

Judy Bentley has gathered a selection of favorite hikes from all over the state, then folded in just the right amount of historical context to make each of the treks pulsate through time.

Ruth Kirk

This book samples the landscape and history of the entire state, and is well organized, well researched, and well written. Its pages add a new dimension to hikes by linking our footfalls with those of the past.

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