Olmstead Place State Park

Olmstead Place State Park


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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.

Facilities: Olmstead Place State Park provides restrooms.

Reservations: Reservations are accepted for Olmstead Place State Park.

Best Time To Visit: Olmstead Place State Park is open during the summer from 6:30 a.m. to dusk. Winter hours are 8 a.m. to dusk.

Fees: No fees are charged.

Accessibility: Handicap accessibility is provided.

Rules: Overnight camping is not permitted.

Directions: To reach Olmstead Place State Park from Yakima start out going north on S 2nd St toward E Yakima Ave. for 0.1 miles. Turn left onto E Yakima Ave. for 0.1 miles. Turn right onto N 1st St. for 1.6 miles. N 1st St becomes ramp for 0.1 miles. Merge onto I-82 W via exit on the left for 30.5 miles. Merge onto I-90 E toward Spokane for 4.5 miles. Take exit 115 toward Kittitas for 0.2 miles. Turn left onto S Main St. for 0.1 miles. Merge onto I-90 W via the ramp on the left for 2.7 miles. End at Olmstead Place State Park.

Address

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission

7150 Cleanwater Lane

P.O. Box 42650

Olympia, Washington 98504

Phone
General: (360) 902-8844

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