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Central & Eastern Washington Highlights
Pairing homegrown food with excellent
Walla Walla
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)
vintages at the
town's wineries or world-class restaurants.
Warming up with bratwurst, beer and accordion music after frolicking (biking, ski-
ing etc) in the wilderness around Bavarian-inspired
Leavenworth (
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)
.
Watching the sunset over the Cascades from the dining car of Amtrak's
Empire
Builder (
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210
)
.
Admiring the state-of-the-art after-dark laser show at the awe-inspiring
Grand
Coulee Dam (
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)
.
Mingling with students and supping good coffee at the
Ellensburg Rodeo
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Reclining regally in the grandiose lobby of Spokane's
Davenport Hotel
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Perusing the orchard-lined back roads around
Wenatchee (
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)
, stopping
at fruit stands and antique malls.
CENTRAL WASHINGTON
Caught in the foothills of the grandiose Cascade Mountains, central Washington is a geo-
graphic crossroads where dramatic alpine peaks fold with eerie suddenness into a barren
steppelike desert broken only by the winding presence of the Columbia River and its ir-
rigating dams.
Wenatchee and Leavenworth are the most interesting urban centers here and both are
popular stopping-off points on the scenic
Cascade Loop drive
. (The drive starts and
ends in Everett, about 25 miles north of Seattle, and takes in the North Cascades, the
Methow Valley, the Wenatchee Valley, the Columbia River and some of the San Juan Is-
lands over its 440 miles.) Aside from Leavenworth's Bavarian bonhomie, outdoor adven-
tures are the main draw.
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Leavenworth
POP 1993
Blink hard and rub your eyes. Yes, all your
Sound of Music
fantasies may have just come
true. This is Leavenworth, a former lumber town that underwent a Bavarian makeover
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