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Ice Age Floods Tour: Stunning Northwest Geology
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Coulee City
Experience the stunning geology of the Northwest on the Ice Age Floods Tour. Explore a landscape of gouged-out earth, lakes, and mountains in a 12-hour adventure. Non BPA Souvenir water bottle and snacks included.
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Dry Falls Interpretive Center - A fantastic view of the former waterfall that dwarfed Niagra.
- Waterville - Drive through this little town with it’s own personality through wheat fields and Ice Age rocks and ripples in the terrain.
- Soap Lake - Stop and feel the water here. There are so many minerals in this little lake that it foams up on a windy day. Great art sculpture here as well.
- The Columbia River - Near Vantage, you’ll stop for a look down the magnificent Columbia Gorge. Walk through sagebrush and learn about the Wanapum Indians.
- Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park Interpretive Center - Not a must, but this stop is really historic with wood that are now rocks. Truly an interesting piece of history and great natural art .
What's Included
- Snacks included
- Complimentary souvenir water bottle
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Lunch
Additional Information
This tour, with its terrain, will stun you. Desert, sagebrush, mountains, plateaus, wheat fields, apple orchards, and a landscape of gouged-out earth is incredible to see. Lakes, the leftovers of former massive flooding, are in some coulees. 12 hours total for the day, you’ll love this tour. Non BPA Souvenir water bottle and snacks included. Yes, we stop for lunch and snacks and stretches and photo opportunities.
Location
Dry Falls Interpretive Center
34875 Park Lake Rd NE
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Fluxcapcitor
Sep 24, 2019
See the past of our planet on this tour - If you love to be wow'd by the grandeur, beauty and immensity of our planet's past, this is the tour for you. The 400 mile trip views over 200 million years of geology from the beautiful mountain scenery formed millions of years ago by colliding tectonic plates with igneus beginnings deep within the earth, to the present view of a mountain pasture, which happened to be hosting a herd of elk. This wonderful odyssey takes you from the Puget Lowlands, through parts of both the North and South Cascades, across the verdant agriculture fields on the loess covered prairie of the Columbia basin to the bottom of giant canyons carved out by a hard-to-fathom series of immense floods during the ice ages.
This was a great tour and Cheryl was a fantastic tour guide.
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The_b_coli
Mar 10, 2019
A Wonderful, Informative and Fun Tour - The tour was super interesting, and Cheryl (we got the head honcho herself!) was fun and knowledgeable throughout. Me and my wife really enjoyed the unique style of the tour that had us learning about many interesting things. Not just at the flood area either, but both on the way there and the way back.
The tour is structured in a loose way, taking a lot of cues from the customers and what you want to do. Want to make a stop somewhere? Just let them know! Want to get food? Just mention it! Want to get out of the car and walk into a snowy field and just take in the sights for a while? Totally go for it! Me and my wife really appreciated the tailored nature of the trip, and enjoyed the smaller and more intimate style much more than the large bus tours other companies tend toward.
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