Hi, I'm Eric.

I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.

I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.

ericscouten.com

Subscribe / Follow · Now

ericscouten.com

Subscribe / Follow · Now

Search Results

104
Lincoln Rock State Park
104

Lincoln Rock State Park

north of East Wenatchee, Washington
visited 16 July 2022
Back to parks list

Some say the rock formation across the Columbia River from this park resembles Abe Lincoln. I don’t quite see that resemblance myself, but — regardless — this park offers some nice views and access to the river itself.

I visited at first light on a summer morning and enjoyed how the orange morning light played out on the rocks across the river.

A paved trail curves through sagebrush and dry grasses in the shadowed foreground, leading toward a rocky, cliff-faced hillside whose upper slopes glow orange in early morning sunlight beneath a clear blue sky.
A wooden cabin with a dark metal roof and a covered porch sits beside a river, backed by tall grassy hills glowing gold in early morning light under a clear blue sky. Small boats dot the water and green shrubs and tree branches frame the foreground.
Not a bad place to have a cabin, right?
A calm river winding beneath a large, treeless golden-brown hillside lit by early morning sun under a clear blue sky, with sagebrush and green trees framing the foreground and a line of buoys floating on the water.
A line of buoys and a few small boats float on the calm blue-green water of the Columbia River in the early morning light, with steep golden-brown arid canyon slopes and rocky basalt outcrops rising behind the far shore.
A calm river winds through an arid canyon at Lincoln Rock State Park, with golden early-morning light striking the treeless brown hills across the water under a clear deep-blue sky. Sagebrush, dry grasses, and tall seed heads fill the foreground along the near shore.
A view through two large leafy trees on a grassy park lawn, framing a river below with sunlit, rugged brown canyon slopes glowing in early morning light across the water. A lattice fence or trellis stands near the water’s edge in the foreground.
Low morning sunlight filters through a row of tall trees casting long shadows across a grassy campground lawn, with a calm river and arid mountain ridges in the background beyond a wooden rail fence.
A grassy park lawn at dawn, bordered by silhouetted trees and a white-barked birch on the right, with a lake and low hills glowing gold on the horizon under a clear purple-blue sky.

Plenty of fishermen were setting out as I was exploring the park:

A calm lake in early morning light with a marina of floating docks and mooring pilings in the foreground, a yellow-buoy swim line strung across the water, and a Tracker aluminum fishing boat carrying several anglers setting out. Behind them a steep hillside of green trees, sagebrush, and dry scrub rises above the shoreline.
A yellow-bellied marmot perched among sunlit boulders beside a rocky lakeshore in early morning light, with rust-colored dried plant stalks in the foreground and dark blue water reflecting the sky behind.
Calm blue water in the foreground reflects the sky beneath a broad, clear blue sky, with dry, treeless brown hills and rocky cliffs rising along the far shoreline in early morning light. A small cluster of buildings sits at the base of the hills near the water’s edge.
A black Tracker motorboat with several people aboard cruises across calm river water in the early morning, leaving a small wake, with a bank of sunlit green trees and sagebrush-covered hillside behind.

This park, and a few others in the area, are a product of a partnership between local public hydroelectric utility projects and the State Parks system.

I have to throw in one panorama I enjoy taken on an earlier attempt to visit this park in February 2021. The park is not quite as inspiring in the winter as it is in the summer, so I decided then to save this park for another day.

For more information:

If you’ve enjoyed this …

Subscribe to my free and occasional (never more than weekly) e-mail newsletter with my latest travel and other stories:

Or follow me on one or more of the socials: