Balsamroot flowers bloom on Mosier Plateau in the Columbia River Gorge. The 3.5-mile hike in downtown Mosier opened to the public in 2013, managed by Friends of the Columbia Gorge.

3) MOSIER PLATEAU. The newest hike in the Columbia River Gorge begins in the hamlet of Mosier, a sunbaked Eastern Gorge town where you can buy roadside cherries during summer and enjoy funky local ...

While the Columbia River as we know it today was ... He’s a Yakama Nation member and a researcher studying the history and intellectual traditions of Native people in the Columbia River Plateau.

Take I-205 across the Columbia River and into Washington and merge onto Washington Highway 14. Follow Highway 14 east to milepost 26.4 (about 20 miles east of the I-205 bridge).

The King Columbia River begins and ends with Grand Coulee Dam, ... Columbia plateau, tribes and traders. It was no coincidence. It was a source of abundant salmon trade was a lifeline dried fish.