Tourism

                      EXPLORING THE BLUES

The Blue Mountains offers many recreational opportunities - there is something 
for every mountain enthusiast.

• The mountains are full of mixed fir, ponderosa and lodge pole pine, cedar, hemlock and spruce.  The summit ridge in the Blues has an elevation from 6,000 to 7,000 feet.  Most mountains are blue, but these are bluer.

• The Blue Mountains support one of the largest herds of Rocky Mountain elk found in any national forest in the nation.  It also has deer and other wildlife..

• The area was first inhabited by the Nez Perce Indians,.  For countless generations the Indians spent the summertime in the Blues, escaping the heat at the Snake River, gathering camas roots and huckleberries, fishing and hunting.

• There are 177,400 acres, making up the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness, which allows no motorized equipment.

• A Umatilla National Forest office is located on Main Street, at the west end of Pomeroy

• The Wooten Game Range, located up the Tucannon River in Garfield and Columbia Counties, is managed as winter range for big game.

Camp Wooten, up the Tucannon, was established as an Environmental Learning Center and serves groups, both far and near, on a regular basis.  The camp is complete with dozens of cabins, a mess hall, solar-heated swimming pool, recreation center and large grassy fields,.  Groups, mainly children's groups, visit the camp to learn about the outdoors and just get away from it all for both fun and relaxation.