About Klickitat County, WA

The Inn of the White Salmon will have music and wine tastings on Saturday April 19, 2008 with Rishell Graves and Jimmy Lagroone. The music will be played between 5-7pm. Admission is $10.00. The Inn of the White Salmon is a 14 room Inn in White Salmon, Washington. Each guest room has a private bath, phone, and cable TV, and high-speed wireless Internet access is available. An 8-bed hostel room is also available. The Inn is famous for it's large European style breakfasts. The Inn of the White Salmon hosts many events, such as weddings, meetings, family reunions, workshops, and retreats. They have been providing rooms to travelers since 1937.

Here are some sights out and about in White Salmon Washington which is located about 65 miles East of Portland, Oregon in Klickitat County in the Columbia River Gorge. The population in the city of White Salmon is about 2,235 with a total of 19,161 population in all of Klickitat County. The communities in Klickitat County are White Salmon, Bingen, Goldendale(County Seat), Husum, Northwestern Lake, BZ Corner, Trout Lake, Snowden, Lyle, High Prairie, Appleton, Bickleton, Centerville, Glenwood, Klickitat, Wahkiacus, Murdock, Wishram, Dallesport, and Roosevelt.

High Prairie is located in Klickitat County Washington. It is about 10 miles North West of Lyle, Washington. High Prairie is an isolated neighborhood bordered on the north and west by the Klickitat River, on the east by Swale Canyon, and on the south by the Columbia Mountains. Goldendale is 25 miles to the east. Farming and stock raising have been the principal industries.

Indians roamed the area in the early days and there were several farms on High Prairie owned by Indians. The first white settlers came to High Prairie in 1877. Mr. Chester Parshall and a young man named John Varker, started out from California, to go farther north and find a location for their new homes. They came by wagon to The Dalles, Oregon then traveled to the Washington side of the Columbia River. They stood on the Columbia mountains and looked over into what later became known as High Prairie. It was a land about ten miles square, hills and canyons and valleys, with timber scattered around.

I currently have a listing in High Prairie. It is 20 acres of dividable land with a house, 2 barns, meadows, oak trees, and 3 seasonal creeks. The price is $379,000. http://www.rmls.com/ #7026212 http://amymcallisterrealty.vflyer.com/3/index.html

The Joslyn House Bed & Breakfast is located in Bingen, WA. For those who have never heard of Bingen, it is across the Hood River Bridge into Washington State, then about 2 miles East on State Route 14. The Joslyn house in the Columbia Gorge was built in 1860 by Erastus Joslyn.

Erastus and Mary Joslyn were early pioneers in this area. When their first house was destroyed by members of the Yakama Nation, they built what is now known as the Joslyn House to replace it. The Joslyns raised fruit and vegetables. Early visitors came up the Columbia River by sternwheeler river boat. Erastus Joslyn named the White Salmon River, taught the Native American inhabitants, and held Sunday worship services for them. The Joslyns also provided travelers a free room for the night.

The second owners of the Joslyn House were the Suksdorfs. They were a prominent local German family. The Suksdorfs named the town of Bingen and expanded Joslyn House.

It is not my listing but the Joslyn House is currently for sale for $1,200,000 on the RMLS-Regional Multiple Listing Service http://www.rmls.com/ listing #7078387

Saturday March 15, 2008 Two easy walks are scheduled: 1 mile & 4 miles with no elevation gain. These hikes are sponsored by the Friends of the Gorge. You can join a native plant expert on the lower Catherine Creek trail and enjoy some early spring wildflowers. Then a short drive to Lyle for a walk along the Klickitat River to Fisher Bridge and back. The First meeting place will be: Depart at 7:30 am from Gateway The Second meeting place will be in the Gorge: 9:30 am at the Catherine Creek Trailhead. For more info on Friends of the Gorge spring hikes in the gorge visit www.gorgefriends.org