![]() It is not too difficult to park the car along the side of the road. Afternoons are good if you want to highlight their colors. When you drive south out of Moscow, ID on US 95, take a left on Eid Road and you will see two very photogenic barns. Look for a pullout to safely park your car. Again, be aware of the traffic while shooting. JohnĤ7☆’41.2488″ N 117☄2’20.7792″ W #19: Rolling Hills along WA State Route 26 around Dustyīetween the town of Dusty and Colfax are some nice rolling hills worth photographing. Although I prefer to drive in the afternoon, you should be able to capture nice images in the mornings as well. Pullman Granary along US 195Ĥ6☄0’42.027″ N 117☁1’40.981″ W #20: Driving along WA State Highway 23Īlong WA Highway 23 between the towns of Steptoe and Ewan are some beautiful rolling hills with lone trees and barns. As the structure can collapse anytime, DO NOT go inside it. Be aware of the traffic while shooting the granary. I used a super wide angle lens to shoot the image below. There is a small pullout along the side of the road to park one car. Oakesdale Abandoned FarmhouseĤ7☇’23.0916″ N 117☁5’56.9376″ W #21: Abandoned Granary in PullmanĪbout 4 miles south of Pullman on US 195 is a cool looking abandoned granary that is good to photograph in the afternoon. As the area is relatively free of light pollution, it is also a good foreground element to photograph the Milky Way. Just outside the town on the west side off of Trestle Creek Road is a beautiful abandoned farmhouse. It is surrounded by beautiful rolling hills of wheat, peas, and lentils. It is one of the oldest communities in the state and has several homes and buildings on the National Historical Register. ![]() The town of Oakesdale is a part of the Palouse Scenic Byway located about 25 miles north of Pullman on WA Highway 27. This is one of my favorite barns in the area which is just off of US 195. A number of these farms have a nice barn and some of those are painted red or crimson red. Rosalia Flag BarnĤ7☁0’46.3656″ N 117☂2’41.5632″ W #23: Colfax Red Barnīetween Pullman and Colfax there are a number of farms that grow winter wheat. As there were no clouds in the sky on the day I was there, I ended up using the nearby tree to frame the barn. When you are driving north from Colfax towards Rosalia on US 195, you will see a beautiful barn with a US flag hanging on one of its sides. The image below is a close up of one of the barns. While driving, we came across a small group of 3 barns. #25: Barn Group in Fairbanksįairbanks is one of the smaller farming towns in the northeast corner of the Palouse and close to the Idaho border. Any person visiting the area for the first time will find this list useful to get a flavor of what this area can offer. They include rolling hills, barns, lone trees, abandoned farmhouses, windmills and even an awesome waterfall. Here are my Top 25 hot spots to photograph in the Palouse. The Palouse hills are not only a landscape unique in the world, but they are beautiful to behold, making them one of my favorite areas to photograph and enjoy in Washington State. In the spring they are lush shades of green when the wheat and barley are young, and in the summer they are dry shades of brown when the crops are ready for harvest. Seen from the summit of 3,612 foot high Steptoe Butte, they look like giant sand dunes because they were formed in much the same way. The hills were formed over tens of thousands of years from wind blown dust and silt, called “loess”, from dry regions to the south west. It is a region in south eastern Washington characterized by gentle rolling hills covered with wheat fields. The Palouse is the most serene and pastoral of the seven wonders of Washington State.
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