This weekend: Selah Community Days

Selah Community Days, the town’s eclectic annual three-day community festival, returns through Sunday. Events got started with Thursday night’s annual Hobo Feed stew and hot dogs from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Selah Civic Center and a carnival at nearby Lince Field beginning at 5 p.m. Friday night will feature free local...

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Toppenish Mural tours offer horse-drawn vantage point

Activities Toppenish Mural tours offer horse-drawn vantage point

TOPPENISH — Jim Duke knows his local history. For more than 20 years, his horse-drawn wagon has served as a time portal, taking visitors to the era when this rural Lower Yakima Valley town was settled. Dubbed “Where the West...

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Coming up in May and June

The summer issue of Discover Yakima Valley is set to come out in mid-June, but there’s so much going on before we hit the stands, we want to make sure you get a chance to check it all out. Here is our list of events from...

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Beauty and the barns

Activities Beauty and the barns

  Barns, beauty and history are three things Kittitas County has in abundance, and some residents are tying them together with a barn quilt trail to draw tourists. Click to Watch Attached Video → The not-exactly-linear Kittitas...

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Song and dance | Live music options abound in the Yakima Valley

Activities Song and dance | Live music options abound in the Yakima Valley

There are plenty of great opportunities for music and live entertainment in the Yakima Valley this summer. In fact, there are a couple of longtime events celebrating milestone anniversaries this season. So, if you enjoy live music and...

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Fresh from the farm | Farmers markets and produce stands

Activities Fresh from the farm | Farmers markets and produce stands

If there’s one thing that you can count on in the Yakima Valley, it’s produce. Take a short drive and you’re ready to pick your own fruit right from the tree. Cherries, apples, peaches and pears are ready and waiting. Looking...

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Greenway a growing attraction in Yakima

Activities Greenway a growing attraction in Yakima

If you’ve lived in the Yakima area for any period of time, chances are you know something about the Yakima Greenway. It’s common to see walkers, runners and bicyclists using the paved pathway, which is currently 10 miles long,...

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Take a hike

Activities Take a hike

The Yakima Valley offers dozens of trailheads within a short drive of your front door, but if you’re looking for a few iconic treks, you can’t go wrong with these. EASY PEASY: If your knees, your waistline or your schedule demand...

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Cycle of options | From quiet streets to paved pathways

Activities Cycle of options | From quiet streets to paved pathways

Yakima is not chock-full of family-friendly bicycle rides, largely because there’s nothing quite like the sound of a car horn blaring from behind to make an inexperienced bicyclist a little wobbly. A general scarcity of wide bicycle...

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