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The Best Attractions In Wine Country

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American wine has been produced for over 300 years. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 89 percent of all US wine. The United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after France, Italy, and Spain.The North American continent is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina. But the wine-making industry is based on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres under vine, the United States is the sixth-most planted country in the wo...
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The Best Attractions In Wine Country

  • 1. Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla
    Fort Walla Walla is a United States Army fort located in Walla Walla, Washington. The first Fort Walla Walla was established July 1856, by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Steptoe, 9th Infantry Regiment. A second Fort Walla Walla was occupied September 23, 1856. The third and permanent military Fort Walla Walla was built in 1858 and adjoined Steptoeville, now Walla Walla, Washington, a community that had grown up around the second fort. An Executive Order on May 7, 1859 declared the fort a military reservation containing 640 acres devoted to military purposes and a further 640 acres each of hay and timber reserves. On September 28, 1910 soldiers from the 1st Cavalry lowered the flag closing the fort. In 1917, the fort briefly reopened to train men of the First Battalion Washington Field Artillery...
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  • 2. Whitman Mission Walla Walla
    Whitman College is a private liberal arts college located in Walla Walla, Washington. Initially founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the school became a four-year degree-granting institution in 1882. Whitman College is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and competes athletically in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. The school offers 48 majors and 33 minors in the liberal arts and sciences, and has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first college in the Pacific Northwest to install a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, and the first school in the United States to require comprehensive exams for graduation. Whitman was ranked tied for 41st in the nation in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report list of Best Liberal Arts Col...
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  • 4. Yakima Valley Museum Yakima
    Yakima is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's eleventh-largest city by population. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 91,067 and a metropolitan population of 243,231. The unincorporated suburban areas of West Valley and Terrace Heights are considered a part of greater Yakima.Yakima is about 60 miles southeast of Mount Rainier in Washington. It is situated in the Yakima Valley, a productive agricultural region noted for apple, wine and hop production. As of 2011, the Yakima Valley produces 77% of all hops grown in the United States. The name Yakima originates from the Yakama Nation Native American tribe, whose reservation is located south of the city.
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  • 5. Two Mountain Winery Zillah
    Interstate 82 is an Interstate Highway in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States that travels through parts of Washington and Oregon. It runs 144 miles from Ellensburg, Washington, to Hermiston, Oregon, passing through Yakima and the Tri-Cities area. The highway also connects I-90 and I-84, which continue to Seattle and Boise, Idaho, respectively. I-82 travels concurrently with U.S. Route 97 between Ellensburg and Union Gap, south of Yakima; and US 12 from Yakima to the Tri-Cities. Its only auxiliary route, I-182, connects the highway to Richland and Pasco in the Tri-Cities. I-82 primarily serves the Yakima Valley region, following the Yakima and Columbia rivers southeastward to the Tri-Cities. It crosses the Columbia River on the Umatilla Bridge and runs southwesterly through U...
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  • 6. Walla Walla Vintners Walla Walla
    Walla Walla Regional Airport is a public airport in the western United States, located in Walla Walla County, Washington. It is three miles northeast of central Walla Walla, and is owned by the Port of Walla Walla.
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  • 8. Sacajawea State Park Pasco
    Sacajawea State Park is a public recreation area and historical preserve in the city of Pasco, Washington, covering 267 acres at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers where the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on October 16, 1805. The state park bears the name of the Shoshone woman Sacagawea, who was an active member of the expedition married to expedition member Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian interpreter and explorer. The park's Sacajawea Interpretive Center features exhibits about her and about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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  • 14. Yakima Sportsman State Park Yakima
    Yakima Sportsman State Park is a public recreation area located on the Yakima River on the east side of the city of Yakima in Yakima County, Washington. The state park is an oasis of green in an otherwise desert region, encompassing 266 acres of Yakima River floodplain. The site was initially developed by the Yakima Valley Sportsman's Association in the early 1940s, then deeded to the state in 1945. Park offerings include camping, hiking, picnicking, fishing, and birdwatching.
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