RHH's photos with the keyword: snake river

This is one of the old ferry boats now abandoned at Lyon's Ferry State Park in Washington. I could find no information on the boat either at the park or on line.

This is the railroad bridge at Lyon's Ferry, Washington. It is here that the Union Pacific Railroad crosses the Snake River. Originally 264 feet above the river the construction of a dam downstream raised the level of the river and the bridge is not only 190 feet above the water.

Lyon's Ferry is at the juncture of the Palouse and Snake Rivers and the site of an old ferry crossing, now replaced with a modern bridge. We visited the state park there with my daughter and her children. The inset photos show one of the old abandoned ferries and the railroad bridge, along with some of the Black Locust trees we found growing there.

The Snake River is in the foreground.