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Next on the History DH: the past comes alive all around this modern highway
running up through the Wenatchee National Forest to Blewett Pass and down to
the western reaches of the Kittitas Valley. The 1880s’ gold mining heritage of
Blewett and Liberty. The telephone museum in Cle Elum. The railroad bunkhouse
museum cum B&B in South Cle Elum. Why even quaint Roslyn’s TV connection dates
all the way back to the early 1990s. And one of the TEs is certifiable time
travel to a past highway epoch. The modest Scenery combined with the low
Twistiness and high Pavement and Engineering one expects from major two-digit
thoroughfares in the state would lead you to think that it’s not a bad place
to see what one of them newfangled Yamaha FJR 1300 contraptions can do. If
only it wasn’t patrolled by those uniformed dinosaurs determined to turn our
era into a Golden Age of Speed Tax Collection. But if you manage to avoid
them, this route’s perfectly capable of making your present come alive, too.
