I-90, Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass

Uwajimaya started with a fella selling fishcakes off the back of his truck — near a hundred years on, the same family still runs the store.

The Roanoke Inn went up in nineteen fourteen — the oldest business on Mercer Island, and the Reeck family's had it since forty-one.

Mercer Slough once floated log rafts and stern-wheelers, until the 1917 Ship Canal dropped Lake Washington almost nine feet.

I-90 reaches Mercer Island on two floating bridges, passes under its lid park, and hits its busiest section at Eastgate.

This lakeshore trail was a rail line for about a century — laid in eighteen eighty-nine to reach Issaquah's coal mines, and the trains stopped in ninety-seven.

A busy stretch of I-90 between Bellevue's Eastgate and the town of Issaquah.

Newcastle coal rode Seattle's first railroad, opened in 1872, then shipped out to San Francisco.

Village Theatre on Front Street has been putting on musicals since the late seventies — a few shows born there made it to Broadway.

Sammamish only became its own city on August 31st, 1999 — before that it was unincorporated King County. The name itself comes from Snoqualmie words for Lake Sammamish and the people who lived around it.

That Alpine chalet is Boehm's Candies — a Vienna-born candymaker moved here in the fifties because the foothills reminded him of home.

Snoqualmie Ridge's first residents arrived in 1998 — and Snoqualmie's population nearly quintupled between 2000 and 2010.

That lodge started as an eight-room inn in nineteen sixteen, reopened as the Salish Lodge in 1988, and was the setting for Twin Peaks.

An 1898 Baptist chapel car that carried church services to rural towns, now at the Northwest Railway Museum.

Edgewick, destroyed in the Boxley Blowout, and Rockdale, a ghost town at the Snoqualmie Tunnel, both got post offices in 1912.

Edgewick, destroyed in the Boxley Blowout, and Rockdale, a ghost town at the Snoqualmie Tunnel, both got post offices in 1912.

That lodge started as an eight-room inn in nineteen sixteen, reopened as the Salish Lodge in 1988, and was the setting for Twin Peaks.

An 1898 Baptist chapel car that carried church services to rural towns, now at the Northwest Railway Museum.

Snoqualmie Ridge's first residents arrived in 1998 — and Snoqualmie's population nearly quintupled between 2000 and 2010.

Village Theatre on Front Street has been putting on musicals since the late seventies — a few shows born there made it to Broadway.

Sammamish only became its own city on August 31st, 1999 — before that it was unincorporated King County. The name itself comes from Snoqualmie words for Lake Sammamish and the people who lived around it.

That Alpine chalet is Boehm's Candies — a Vienna-born candymaker moved here in the fifties because the foothills reminded him of home.

This lakeshore trail was a rail line for about a century — laid in eighteen eighty-nine to reach Issaquah's coal mines, and the trains stopped in ninety-seven.

A busy stretch of I-90 between Bellevue's Eastgate and the town of Issaquah.

Newcastle coal rode Seattle's first railroad, opened in 1872, then shipped out to San Francisco.

Mercer Slough once floated log rafts and stern-wheelers, until the 1917 Ship Canal dropped Lake Washington almost nine feet.

I-90 reaches Mercer Island on two floating bridges, passes under its lid park, and hits its busiest section at Eastgate.

Uwajimaya started with a fella selling fishcakes off the back of his truck — near a hundred years on, the same family still runs the store.

The Roanoke Inn went up in nineteen fourteen — the oldest business on Mercer Island, and the Reeck family's had it since forty-one.