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Potholes State Park
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Potholes State Park

northwest of Othello, Washington
visited 13 March 2021
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Who names a park after everyone’s “favorite” road misfeature? Sorry. I couldn’t resist. Actually, it’s not named for that. The park is named for the unique landforms created in the Ice Age, in which the land itself appeared much like a pitted road. Now flooded as part of the O’Sullivan Reservoir, these depressions form myriad small lakes that are a favorite of fisherman and birders.

A wide panoramic view of a calm lake at Potholes State Park under a vivid blue sky with wispy clouds, with a dry grassy shoreline in the foreground, patches of reeds in the shallows, a small boat pulled up on the left bank, and low hills along the far horizon.

I wasn’t able to explore those lakes on my visit, but I did get a chance to enjoy the camping grounds and trails of Potholes State Park.

A small log cabin with a peaked roof, a glass-block window, and an electrical meter box sits on dirt ground under a vivid blue sky streaked with wispy clouds at Potholes State Park, Washington. Dry golden grasses, bare brush, and large boulders surround the cabin, with a sliver of lake visible on the horizon.
Waterfront cabin!

Inland a bit from the camping area there is a trail along an unnamed creek.

A wide panoramic view of a river winding through flat grassland at Potholes State Park, its waters rippling with small rapids and lined by golden reeds and dry brush under a vast blue sky streaked with wispy clouds.
A fast-flowing channel of water cuts through a dry, golden grassland under a dramatic blue sky streaked with wispy clouds. Tall cattails and reeds frame the foreground, with matted brown grasses and low sagebrush lining the far bank at Potholes State Park near Othello, Washington.
A seedhead of a cattail that has burst open into fluffy white and brown down, perched atop a slender stalk against a soft, out-of-focus background of water and shoreline vegetation.
A wide panoramic view of a calm river winding through dry golden grasslands and leafless winter trees under a bright blue sky streaked with wispy clouds at Potholes State Park in Washington.

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