Fordair: US 2 at MP 193.4: Coulee City
Fordair sits on the Columbia Plateau in Washington State, United States, where US Route 2 meets State Route 155 amid open shrub-steppe. This sparse road junction lies close to the southern end of Banks Lake, the long reservoir created for the Columbia Basin Project. Route 155 runs north beside the lake toward the Grand Coulee, while US 2 forms a major east–west highway across central Washington. The surrounding terrain is shaped by broad, treeless slopes and coulees, steep-sided channels cut into the plateau by immense Ice Age floods. Fordair is a useful orientation point for motorists travelling between the farming country around Coulee City and the lake-and-dam corridor farther north.
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Fordair occupies the southern reaches of Grand Coulee on the Columbia Plateau in central Washington. This broad, steep-sided channel belongs to the Channeled Scablands, terrain cut by immense Ice Age floods. Banks Lake, a reservoir impounded by Dry Falls Dam, extends north through the coulee, while nearby Dry Falls preserves the remains of a far larger prehistoric cataract. Basalt cliffs, open shrub-steppe and farmland define the area more than urban development. Coulee City and Sun Lakes–Dry Falls State Park are close by, connecting Fordair to one of eastern Washington's most distinctive flood-shaped landscapes. Browse other webcams across Washington's Columbia Plateau to place Fordair in a wider geographic context.
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