Steamboat Rock State Park, Wa 03/20/2021
Due to a job change we had an extra-long weekend and Tammy looked at me and said, “Let’s go do something!” That night we made reservations for the next two nights and fled home like it was on fire!
Steamboat Rock State Park was about 2 hours away, most of the trip is just west on State Route 2 out of Spokane after about 30 miles on i90. That’s if you use your head and don’t follow the follies that is in dash GPS. We decided we needed to try to find some camping chairs for sale on the way out as well which took us in a different direction. Note to self, find the camping chairs BEFORE hooking up the trailer. It was a mini adventure before our adventure.
Due to our side tracking for the chairs our GPS decided to take us on an interesting drive through country I can only describe as something straight out of Themiddleofnowhere, USA. It was beautiful country, surrounded by nothing but rolling hills and farm land that went on for what seemed forever. Our 2-hour drive there turned into about 3.5 hours but that’s OK because we were going to be way too early for check in anyway.
Steamboat Rock State Park sits on a peninsula in the middle of Banks lake, just south of the Grand Coulee Dam. The entire area is in the foot prints of what used to be an ancient run of the Columbia River and a large glacier that carved its path through the area 18,000 years ago during the last ice age, redirecting the Columbia River to where it flows today. When you’re there it is like being in Sedona, Az! There are 800 foot tall buttes or cliffs all around you. It is really quite the sight to see.
The sites were spacious but did not provide a lot of privacy. The fee was 45.00 a night with Washington State Discover Pass and we had no issue finding a site in a moment’s notice this time of the year.
It was a little chilly, temps were in the high 50’s to low 60’s with one day that pushed 70 degrees. The fire helped!
The first morning we woke up, we had about 30 wild turkeys walking through the camp site. They were all puffed up with their glorious array of feathers out for everyone to know who was boss!
That evening we got to break in our new BBQ from Nexgrill which worked perfectly with a high-pressure hookup from one of our two main tanks.
We would definitely stay here again!
Resources
https://parks.state.wa.us/590/Steamboat-Rock
Steamboat Rock State Park is a 3,522-acre Washington state park located near the north end of Banks Lake in the Grand Coulee. The park takes its name from the landscape’s dominating feature, Steamboat Rock, a basalt butte that rises 800 feet above the lake which nearly completely surrounds it. Wikipedia
Address: 51052 WA-155, Electric City, WA 99123
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