Visit to Palouse (Page 2): Thanks for that. My wife's research pointed her to Dayton.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

GEANNIE wrote:

I stayed in the Blue Mountain Motel in Dayton. It was very clean and reasonably priced. It is a no frills motel but I'm only there to sleep. Driving the roads around Dayton will bring you many photo opportunities including the ones mentioned. If you like architecture they have a great old courthouse and an old school house.

Thanks for that. My wife's research pointed her to Dayton.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

photogeneralist wrote:

When we went see we stayed in Colfax. a farming community just abut smack dab center of the palouse; Get hotel. motel reservations EARLY. Three and a half months ahead of time got me the last two rooms in town for my group
Restaurants were busy with about 1/2 being farmers listening to futures prices their commodities on the radio and the other 1/2 were photographers.

Good stuff to know!

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

MT native wrote:

We were there the first week in June. We stayed at Holiday Inn Express in Pullman. You will love the Palouse. Steptoe Butte is a must. Hope there are no forest fires around.

Thanks for the information, no fires, please.

JoeM845

Take a look at search results for "Tim Grey Palouse". He is a good photographer, writer, and educator that leads a workshop in the the Palouse annually or more often. He has a $20 video course "Photographing in the Palouse" that might give you some ideas about locations and timing. Probably not places to stay. Note that I have not seen this course, but have been pleased with other offerings from him.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

JoeM845 wrote:

Take a look at search results for "Tim Grey Palouse". He is a good photographer, writer, and educator that leads a workshop in the the Palouse annually or more often. He has a $20 video course "Photographing in the Palouse" that might give you some ideas about locations and timing. Probably not places to stay. Note that I have not seen this course, but have been pleased with other offerings from him.

Great tip! Thanks.

Leland22 Loc: Texas

We spent 5 days there in May. Stayed at the Best Western in Colfax-the friendliest hotel we have ever stayed. Had 5 different hot breakfasts included. drove around 1400 miles on country roads. Get the maps at www.terilou.com. cost about $25 but worth it. If you want to be there at harvest, call the hotel. I have an ag background and it was one of the best places I have ever visited. This is the only place we have gone where my wife said she could live there. I would recommend Colfax as your center, however no good place to eat so we drove to Pullman-- only about 15 minutes away. There is a good grocery store in Colfax. Enjoy. Would go back in a minute to see harvest.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Leland22 wrote:

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Thanks!

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

I'd be glad to offer something, Mike, but my information is around 60 years old. Looks like there's a lot of help here for you, so just looking forward to seeing what you come up with. IMO you are from a great scenic area I only caught at Interstate speed.
Cheers

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I had some relatives that lived there.
Pullman has an interesting history. Mr Pullman was a genius flake, turned freak.
ie, his cronies convinced him to raise rents AND lower wages- Army arrived to shoot at protesters.
I don't know if it's still there, but there was a kind of reenactment of a Lewis and Clark encampment. Lifesize silhouettes scattered as if posed.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

neilds37 wrote:

I'd be glad to offer something, Mike, but my information is around 60 years old. Looks like there's a lot of help here for you, so just looking forward to seeing what you come up with. IMO you are from a great scenic area I only caught at Interstate speed.
Cheers

I appreciate your thoughts, Neil. We love Utah, but decided that we had to take advantage of our location to visit our neighbors.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Harry0 wrote:

I had some relatives that lived there.
Pullman has an interesting history. Mr Pullman was a genius flake, turned freak.
ie, his cronies convinced him to raise rents AND lower wages- Army arrived to shoot at protesters.
I don't know if it's still there, but there was a kind of reenactment of a Lewis and Clark encampment. Lifesize silhouettes scattered as if posed.

We will look for that, thanks.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Harry0 wrote:

I had some relatives that lived there.
Pullman has an interesting history. Mr Pullman was a genius flake, turned freak.
ie, his cronies convinced him to raise rents AND lower wages- Army arrived to shoot at protesters.
I don't know if it's still there, but there was a kind of reenactment of a Lewis and Clark encampment. Lifesize silhouettes scattered as if posed.

Found it. Finally ...
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM8D3A_Patit_Creek_Campsite_Washington

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

Leland22 wrote:

We spent 5 days there in May. Stayed at the Best W... (show quote)

If you follow the link (http://palousemap.blogspot.com/), there's an interesting story about how the Pullman Chamber of Commerce allegedly stole the map developer's intellectual property.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

DWU2 wrote:

If you follow the link (http://palousemap.blogspot.com/), there's an interesting story about how the Pullman Chamber of Commerce allegedly stole the map developer's intellectual property.

You cannot trust elected officials? I am shocked!

Peloton Loc: Pacific County, Washington

One other thing about motels. During football home games motel rooms will be hard to find the closer you are to Pullman or Moscow.