| Olmstead Place State Park is a 217-acre day-use park that features a working pioneer farm. The park hosts tours and school field trips. Pioneer artifacts are plentiful in the park, and many can be seen in action in the work of maintaining the farm. Picnic space and walking trails interweave with interpretive activities. Coleman Creek provides scenic values and fishing. Park visitors may walk the 3/4 mile interpretive trail; tours are given of the Homestead cabin, the red barn, the tool shed, the Seaton Cabin School House, and equipment sheds. School field trip programs are also available. Although there are public tours of the grounds and facilities, most of the park's activities are special events, some of which include the Annual Threshing Bee Event, the annual "Springtime on the Farm/Easter Egg Hunt" event. This area is the location of one of the first homesteads in the Kittitas valley. The Olmstead family arrived in 1875 and lived on the farm for about 100 years before donating it to Washington State Parks in 1968. Today, it continues to be a working farm, with some of the land still worked with old-fashioned equipment. The original 1875 log cabin and 1908 farmhouse (with the family's furnishings intact) are still standing, as are most of the outbuildings. |
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