Outdoors & River/September 18, 2026
Week by week, mid September to November 1: elk rut, Boise Creek salmon, pumpkin patches, Sunrise Road, Chinook Pass closing, first frost, sunset times.
Local Life/September 17, 2026
Enumclaw counts from 1885. The Muckleshoot count from before Rainier fell: two treaties, an 1857 order, the Boldt ruling, a casino tent, the forest above town.
Events & Culture/September 17, 2026
Every confirmed Enumclaw and plateau event from September 17 to November 29, 2026, with dates, times and prices, plus what was cancelled or is still undated.
Outdoors & River/September 16, 2026
Mud Mountain Dam is 432 feet tall, was briefly the tallest of its kind on Earth, holds no lake, and spends most of the year doing nothing. Then it rains.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Four state highways leave town in four directions. One was paid for with ox hides, one was built for coal, one leads to a tent that became the biggest casino in Washington, and the state describes the whole town in a single comma.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Three thousand cows paid for the bank, the insurer and the store. Six dairies are left, the county is still buying the fields, and the soil has not changed its mind.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
A fair nobody can agree on, an insurance company older than the city, a hall that arrived by horse for twenty dollars, and a diner that, at fifty, is the baby of the list.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Inside the city limits the streets remember a postmaster, a well and a coal creek. Outside them, they count the distance from Pioneer Square. A field guide to both systems and the line where they collide.
Outdoors & River/September 15, 2026
Fifty miles and 6,400 feet, with the fall color and the first snow due any day. As of the Park Service's September 24 update, Sunrise Road is closed to cars for the rest of 2026 and open to feet and bicycles only. What NPS says this week, what the drive normally is, and how to know the moment the gate opens.
Outdoors & River/September 15, 2026
A straightened farm stream south of town holds the densest wild Chinook and steelhead spawning in the thousand square mile Puyallup watershed. Here is who comes back, when, and where to stand without wrecking it.
Local Life/September 15, 2026
Seven stops on foot: three King County landmarks, one National Register storefront, a museum that is not a courthouse, and the corner where a bank was carried across the street.
Food & Drink/September 15, 2026
A walking guide to Cole Street and the blocks around Griffin Avenue, from a six o'clock breakfast to a bar you need a password for, with the building history where it earns its place.
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