Kennewick Washington Hotels, Accommodation in Washington USA
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| The towns of Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland
make up the sun-drenched southeast Washington region known as the
Tri-Cities. The area's main attractions are its rivers (the Yakima,
Snake, and Columbia converge here), wineries (more than a dozen are
scattered between Prosser and Walla Walla), and golf courses. But it
also has an intriguing history that includes Lewis and Clark's stop at
what is now Sacajawea State Park in Pasco. Pasco has the most diverse population of the three cities-about half the residents are Hispanic-and an economy based on light manufacturing and food processing. Historically a railroad town, Pasco also has a railroad museum, a minor league professional baseball team, and the Pasco Farmers Market, one of the state's largest open-air produce markets. On weekends from May to November, farmers bring truckloads of asparagus, corn, and other vegetables at dawn-and sell out by noon. Kennewick is the largest of the Tri-Cities, sharing a border with Richland and an architecturally magnificent cable bridge (lighted at night) with Pasco. The city is known as southeast Washington's retail center and has several malls and a fabulous park featuring a wooden castle-like Playground of Dreams, complete with climbing structures and twisty slides. It's next to the Family Fishing Pond, where adults can teach children under 15 to catch and release fish. Richland was once a secret city, hidden away while the atomic bomb workers did research in the 1940s. Today the town is proud of its nuclear past: The Columbia River Exhibition of History Science & Technology displays the region's history from ice age through nuclear age. There is also an art gallery in town, and more adventurous visitors can take jet-boat rides through an ecologically protected section of the Columbia River called the Hanford Reach.
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