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Green River Gorge
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Richard And Ruth
January 14, 2022
Green River Gorge is the last river-cut rock canyon in Western Washington and is 12 miles long. A wild place of natural wonder just east of Black Diamond, the gorge remains isolated, allowing it to survive man’s intrusion. Slashing down 300 feet into the Puget Sound’s 50-million-year-old sub-tropical past. Coal miners have lived here, their lives now marked by a ghost town you can hike to. A coal seam, part of a mine abandoned decades ago, still burns today. Petrified wood, fossils and even a petroglyph are found here by the rafters and kayakers, fishermen, hikers, our guests and berry pickers who have learned and come back to the gorge’s beauty.
Green River Gorge is the last river-cut rock canyon in Western Washington and is 12 miles long. A wild place of natural wonder just east of Black Diamond, the gorge remains isolated, allowing it to survive man’s intrusion. Slashing down 300 feet into the Puget Sound’s 50-million-year-old sub-tropica…
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