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Stevenson is a city in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area along the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington, United States. It is the county seat of Skamania County [5] and home to the Skamania County Court House and Sheriff's Office. The population was 1,491 at the 2020 census.
The Chinook tribe, which is not federally recognized, who live near the lower Columbia River, call it Wimahl or Wimal in the Upper Chinook (Kiksht) language, [52] and it is Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana to the Sahaptin (Ichishkíin Sɨ́nwit)-speaking peoples of its middle course in present-day Washington. [53]
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range , forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [ 1 ]
Beacon Rock State Park is a geologic preserve and public recreation area on Route 14 in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in Skamania County, Washington, United States. The park takes its name from Beacon Rock , an 848-foot (258 m) basalt volcanic plug on the north shore of the Columbia River 32 miles (51 km) east of Vancouver .
Carson River Valley, Washington; Stevenson, Washington; Cascade Locks, Oregon; ... Tributaries of the Columbia River; Hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River
Beacon Rock State Park is located east of Skamania. The town is also near the Sams Walker Day Use Site, which is maintained by the US Forest Service.The community is sandwiched between Pierce National Wildlife Refuge and Franz Lake National Wildlife Refuge, home to wintering grounds for tundra swans and 35 acres (140,000 m 2) of wapato, previously extinct in Washington and endangered in Oregon ...
Watch LIVE footage from Alaska's Brooks River in Katmai National Park where Brown Bears descend on a mile long stretch of Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.
SR 25 crosses the Spokane and Columbia rivers on the Spokane River Bridge and Columbia River Bridge, respectively. The Spokane River Bridge was built in 1941 to replace an earlier span, known as the Detillion Bridge, that was flooded by Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake. The Columbia River Bridge was completed in 1951 to serve the town of Northport.