hunting eastern washington

[Steveoko922]

Wondering if you've found a new place yet. This is a rather old thread but I saw it andthought I'd throw out some info. I have 4 - 20 ac parcels for sale one with a 3 bed 2 ba house in the Okanogan Highlands between Okanogan and Twisp. I just can't keep up with the maintenance as my business is here in the Yelm area and I don't get over there as much as I'd like. Good Mulie migration in the winter, borders LOTS of DNR land. Fully gated at each end of acess road. Very privage but only 13 miles to Okanogan. About 20 to Twisp. Loup Loup ski bowl 7 miles away for fun family skiikng that's affordable. They groom many miles of cross country trails also. A very unique property. Parcels range from $100k to $180k. All but one have wells and power close. House at $495.

Have a map or Redfin add? Hows the fire danger near your house and parcels?

What buisness you own in yelm? Your drive back and forth between yelm and lacey ever? I'm the house with all the "chicks for sale" posters on my fence on the roundabout on yelm/merdian road.

 

[jklklatt]

Wondering if you've found a new place yet. This is a rather old thread but I saw it andthought I'd throw out some info. I have 4 - 20 ac parcels for sale one with a 3 bed 2 ba house in the Okanogan Highlands between Okanogan and Twisp. I just can't keep up with the maintenance as my business is here in the Yelm area and I don't get over there as much as I'd like. Good Mulie migration in the winter, borders LOTS of DNR land. Fully gated at each end of acess road. Very privage but only 13 miles to Okanogan. About 20 to Twisp. Loup Loup ski bowl 7 miles away for fun family skiikng that's affordable. They groom many miles of cross country trails also. A very unique property. Parcels range from $100k to $180k. All but one have wells and power close. House at $495.

Do you still have parcels available? I have a daughter in Ellensburg that is looking for a parcel in that area. She would be seriously interested in the parcels without the house.

 

[Smokepole55]

I'm right off yelm hwy by vans burgers

When I lived in Washington I hunted in the Lincoln creek area not far from you. I also hunted the Twisp and Okanogan areas for the high buck hunt. Twisp, Colville and those areas would be great.

 

[Twisted_1in66]

In order of nice places with good schools, Hospitals, lower crime rates and growth areas.
(1) Tri-Cities
(2) Hermiston, Ore.
(3) Moses Lake
(4) Spokane. Has good areas and ruff areas.
(5) Wenatchee
(6) Walla Walla
All within 100 miles of State and National Forests.
Hope this helps. Remember you are moving for a reason. Please leave those reasons west of the Cascades.
Old Shepherd

Beware of the paper factories in the Tri-Cities of WA. Haven't been there in many years because I avoid it. I was in a touring nightclub group in 1971 through 1973 and we played the Red Lion Inn in Richland. Everywhere we went in a car in Pasco, Kennewick, or Richland, we had to keep the windows up and the AC on recirculate. If you didn't do that your eyes would start to sting first and then the extremely acrid smell of a paper factory would burn through your nose and sinuses. Check it out BEFORE you move there.

 

[Old Shepherd]

There is only one pulp mill and it is not in the Tri-Cities. It is south of Pasco just above the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Modern technology has greatly changed the odor issues since the 70's.
I have lives in the rural area SW of the Tri-Cites since 1960.
Old Shepherd.

 

[ADK Bigfoot]

Once while visiting a friend in Maine, I stopped for coffee in a pulp mill town. I gagged when I got out of the car, and said out loud, "What the hell is that smell?" An old woman walking by responded, "That's the smell of money, honey!"

ADK Bigfoot

 

[Twisted_1in66]

There is only one pulp mill and it is not in the Tri-Cities. It is south of Pasco just above the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Modern technology has greatly changed the odor issues since the 70's.
I have lives in the rural area SW of the Tri-Cites since 1960.
Old Shepherd.

Good to hear that. It was a tough thing to put up with. I was playing in a touring nightclub group and we played there for 2-weeks. As long as I didn't go outside, it was fine.

From 2005 until 2015 I lived in the Blue Ridge Mts. just south of Roanoke, VA and I would fish the Jackson River from time to time, which was about an hour and a half away. It's a great trout stream which is kept in the low high-50's to low-60's for the Westvaco Paper factory downstream in Covington, VA. Come to think of it, it was not nearly as noxious as the Pasco, Kennewick, Richland area in the early 70's, but I was still sure to roll the windows up and put the air conditioning on re-circulating to avoid any of the acrid smell as I drove by. They use an ingenious system to that releases water from various levels of the lake to maintain that temperature for the paper-mill downstream. That paper mill has been in continuous operation since it was originally opened in 1899.

 

[Beaverman2]

When I lived in Washington I hunted in the Lincoln creek area not far from you. I also hunted the Twisp and Okanogan areas for the high buck hunt. Twisp, Colville and those areas would be great.

I used to hunt the Lincoln also, about 10 years ago Warehouser sold that land to a another timber Company who locked all the gates, posted no trespassing no hunting signs everywhere, if you want to hunt the animals which are state controlled and basically owned by the public you need to give them 500 bucks a year for a key to the gate, wouldn't be bad if you could split it between a couple 3 or 4 guys but that 500 is for you only! some real pissed off hunters over that and the state don't give a rats *** about it!