CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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Folks in the Chelan area Thursday will be able to view two new buses before they are barged up Lake Chelan to Stehekin on Friday.
This is one of the four new buses that will carry visitors up and down the Stehekin Valley.
The vintage-looking buses are the first two of four new busses which are coming to Stehekin. Purchased by the National Park Service, they will be operated by the NPS concessionaire, Stehekin Landing Resort, to shuttle visitors along the Stehekin Valley to access trailheads, campgrounds and private businesses and to provide the popular tour to 312-foot Rainbow Falls.
The design of the buses was inspired by the early 20th century vehicles that once roamed the Stehekin Valley.
The buses can be seen from 11 a.m. to noon in the parking area adjacent to Chelan Airways and the Lake Chelan Boat Company between 1328 and 1418 W. Woodin Ave., Chelan.
Shuttle buses will again run from Ashford to Longmire and Paradise, starting Friday.
On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays the shuttle will run between Longmire and Paradise with stops at Cougar Rock and Narada Falls on the uphill run. Shuttles will stop at Comet Falls and Cougar Rock on the downhill run. At Longmire, visitors will board the shuttle at the historic Longmire Gas Station.
On Saturdays and Sundays, visitors can board the shuttle in Ashford at Whittaker’s Mountaineering on Highway 706 and connect with the Paradise shuttle at Longmire.
Since parking at Paradise will be limited again this summer due to
construction work on the lower parking area adjacent to the old Jackson Visitor Center, an additional shuttle will transport visitors to and from the Paradise Valley Road, where overflow parking will be directed.
The shuttle service will run through Sept. 6.
Click here for shuttle schedules and other park information.
