Floodfest floods Dry Falls Visitor Center with guests
Dry Falls is a 3.5-mile-wide chasm of basalt, with a drop of 400 feet, that was left high and dry thousands of years ago as the last of several Ice Age floods swept through the Grand Coulee area of the Columbia Basin. There is a viewpoint for visitors to walk out on to get a panoramic view and photos.
Courtesy photo/Rebecca Pettingill
There was an interactive trailer full of sand that children could create hills and valleys in before water came rushing through, like in the Ice Age Floods, to create a new landscape.
Chad Eidson, a wildlife area manager with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, had a booth featuring furs, skulls and tracks of species that call Washington home.
The Dry Falls Visitor Center was also open for attendees of Ice Age Floodfest to explore.
Lucille Luevano, a descendant of Chief Moses and enrolled member and historian of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, gave an oral history about the area and had a poster board with historic photographs including photos of the last recognized chiefs.
Floodfest is an annual event hosted by Washington State Parks at their Dry Falls Visitor Center to educate and celebrate the ice age floods that created the landscape along the Coulee Corridor in particular. Other interested groups and organizations participated in the event with interactive booths and presentations set up around the grounds of the Visitor Center.
COULEE CITY — Ice Age Floodfest returned to the Dry Falls Visitor Center over the weekend, attracting a wide array of people interested in celebrating and learning more about the history of the unique geology of the area.
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