Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
This geologic tour in the Leavenworth area heads up the Wenatchee River Valley to Lake Wenatchee. We’ll look at everything from Chumstick sandstone to the glacial features from the Icicle Creek and Lake Wenatchee Glaciers. We’ll see the Leavenworth fault, identify glacial moraines, discuss how streams change with time, and examine 90 million year old igneous rocks and even older metamorphic rocks!
Tour goers meet at the Wenatchee Valley Museum to board a tour bus that departs at 9 a.m. The first stop is at Pinnacle State Park. The tour continues along Hwy 2, Chumstick Hwy, and Icicle Canyon with multiple viewing and discussion stops. The tour stops at Lake Wenatchee State Park for lunch and returns to Leavenworth via the Chumstick Hwy. Please plan to bring your lunch unless otherwise notified.
