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Maryhill State Park is a public recreation area on the Columbia River in Klickitat County, Washington. The 81-acre (33 ha) state park offers 4,700 feet (1,400 m) of shoreline and facilities for camping, hiking, boating, fishing, and swimming. The Maryhill Stonehenge, a full-scale concrete replica of Stonehenge, stands on a bluff not far from ...
Maryhill is located along the southern edge of Klickitat County and the state of Washington at (45.685649, -120.817232 It sits on the north bank of the Columbia River, 209 miles (336 km) by river upstream from its mouth at Astoria, 103 miles (166 km) upstream from Portland, and 17 miles (27 km) upstream from The Dalles Dam.
Maryhill Stonehenge in 2024. The monument is located within the former site of the town of Maryhill; the town later burned down, leaving only the concrete replica standing. The memorial overlooks the Columbia Gorge. A second formal dedication of the monument took place on its completion on May 30, 1929.
Jackson House State Park Heritage Site is a 1.4-acre (0.57 ha) Washington state park centered around the John R. Jackson House, the restored homestead cabin of John R. and Matilda Jackson, who were among the first Euro-American settlers north of the Columbia River. [2] Known locally as the Jackson Courthouse, [4] the site is located in Mary's ...
An outdoor sculpture park containing more than a dozen works by Pacific Northwest artists, Maryhill Loops Road, the first asphalt road in Washington state (1911) and site of the annual Maryhill Festival of Speed—the only International Gravity Sports Association World Cup race in North America.
Peace Arch Historical State Park: Whatcom: 20 8.1 A peace memorial on the United States-Canada border Sacajawea Historical State Park: Franklin: 284 115 Steptoe Battlefield State Park Heritage Site: Whitman: 4 1.6 Steptoe Butte State Park Heritage Site: Whitman: 150 61 Willie Keil's Grave State Park Heritage Site: Pacific: 0.34 0.14
SR 14 at its interchange with I-205, built in the 1970s. The first highway that traveled through the Columbia River Gorge was surveyed in 1905 at a cost of $15,000 (equivalent to $508,667 in 2025 [27]) by the state of Washington as a wagon road connecting Washougal in Clark County to Lyle in Klickitat County that was designated as secondary State Road 8. [28]
The Maryhill Loops Road was an experimental road in south central Washington, United States, built by Good Roads promoter Samuel Hill with the help of engineer and landscape architect Samuel C. Lancaster. Laid in 1911 as the first asphalt road in the state, it achieved low grades with horseshoe curves.