Tag: palouse to cascades state park trail

December 12, 2022

Watch: Biking Seattle to Spokane

Mike Mike Motorbike (Michael Valeri) released this wonderful video last week documenting a bike trip he and his friend Nick took from Seattle to Spokane over the summer. Our state is really something. They stuck mostly to the Palouse to Cascades Trail, though road riding is still required for many sections. The reconstructed Beverly Bridge…
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August 22, 2022

Riding a folding bike with a kid to camp the Palouse to Cascades Trail

Like so many adventuring plans, this wasn’t how we originally saw it going. But somehow I ended up biking myself and our kid on a gravel path up mountain using a folding bike. And it was great. The Palouse to Cascades Trail is an incredible place, and I can’t recommend it enough. This was the…
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tagged: bike camping, brompton, family biking, iron horse trail, john wayne pioneer trail, palouse to cascades state park trail
April 4, 2022

Beverly Bridge over the Columbia River officially opens April 8, fills major gap in the Palouse-to-Cascades Trail

The most difficult gap in the nearly-statewide Palouse-to-Cascades Trail is now fixed, and in stunning fashion. The 3,052-foot-long Beverly Bridge over the Columbia River promises to usher in a new era for the statewide trail formerly known as the Iron Horse Trail or the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, connecting the western and eastern halves of…
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tagged: beverly bridge, gabriel zalaya, palouse to cascades state park trail, palouse to cascades trail coalition
September 2, 2021

Help family of man killed while working on the Beverly rail-trail bridge

Last month, Gabriel Zalaya was working on the state project to rehab the Beverly Bridge over the Columbia River when he fell and was killed. He was 39. Our condolences to his friends and family. A contractor for the State is rehabilitating the historic Beverly Railroad Bridge as part of the state-spanning Palouse-to-Cascades Trail. The…
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tagged: beverly bridge, gabriel zalaya, kittitas county, palouse to cascades state park trail
January 23, 2019

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy launches campaign to build trail from Seattle to DC – UPDATED

“The Great American Rail-Trail” could stretch from Seattle to Washington D.C., entirely off-road and with gentle grades. This is the dream the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (“RTC”) announced today, noting that about half the 4,000-mile route is already complete in some form thanks to decades of advocacy work in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,…
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tagged: great american rail-trail, palouse to cascades state park trail, rails to trails