- Not to be confused with Grand Coulee, site of the massive Grand Coulee Dam, 30 mi (48 km) northeast.
Coulee City is in the Columbia River Plateau of Washington State, at the south shore of Banks Lake in the Grand Coulee.
Understand
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Get in
[edit]US Highway 2 (US-2) passes through Coulee City, between Wenatchee and Spokane.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]- 1 Lake Lenore Caves. These caves on the Grand Coulee were formed by water erosion on volcanic rock, which makes them geologically interesting.
- 2 Summer Falls (about 10 miles south of Coulee City).
- 3 Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park (7 miles SW of Coulee City). At the foot of Dry Falls. Offers camping and lakefront shoreline. During the last ice age, Dry Falls occasionally carried more water by volume than all the rivers of the world combined (known as the Missoula Flood).
Do
[edit]- 1 Banks Lake. A 27 mi (43 km) reservoir in the the northern portion of the Grand Coulee, a formerly dry coulee near the Columbia River, formed by the Missoula Floods.
Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]- 1 Coulee City Campground, 10113 US-2.
Go next
[edit]Routes through Coulee City |
Wenatchee ← Waterville ← | W ![]() |
→ Davenport → Spokane |
Brewster ← Bridgeport ← | N ![]() |
→ Sun Lakes-Dry Falls S.P. → Moses Lake |
Omak ← Grand Coulee ← | N ![]() |
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