Here are the 10 best things about living in the Winachi Valley
Number one is the weather. In Winatchee, North Central Washington, we have four perfect seasons
Summer, fall, winter, and spring. The spring's beautiful with the apple blossom and sage hills and the balsam root and all the flowers
Beautiful weather, 60, 70 degrees. You'll start getting outside going on hikes and bikes and getting out there doing your gardening
You'll absolutely love it. The summertime, the heat comes, and it's, it can be hot
I got to be honest, sometimes in August, it's so hot. You can't even go outside in the 100, 110 degree weather
But for the most part, it cools down at night. So you can go out and barbecue and have people over, see, have some amazing sunsets in the summer
or get up early in the morning and get your exercise in and you're walking in in your outdoor recreation
But you're going to get a lot of sun. So if you love the sun, you're going to get that in the Winachia Valley
In fact, there's 320 days of sunshine throughout the year. So it's rare to have overcast
It's rare to have rain. But when it does rain, it really does rain
And it can get quite windy. But it doesn't happen that often. And you're actually, it's a pleasant surprise because you're like, oh, finally, we get some rain
Right. You know you're kind of a Wenatcheite when you're like, well, we need some rain here
It's a good thing. Wintertime snow comes. Fall, fall colors are absolutely gorgeous
And the wintertime, we get snow. And that's another reason you want to live in Winatchie
So number two is we got Mission Ridge. We got Mission Ridge, a ski hill, downhill ski hill with four lifts
It's well known throughout northwest. In fact, lots of avid skiers and snowboarders go there because the snow is really light and it stays really dry
We don't get a ton of snow, but when we do it, it stays. And people will absolutely love it
It's a small hill, right, but with big lifts, and you're going to love it
It's like the second highest peak as far as a ski hill in Washington State
I think crystals only the higher elevation wise. So you go way up like 6,700 feet
and you have amazing views of the valley. You're gonna love it. Bomber bowl is one of the most famous runs there
where you gotta go through and they call it Bomber Bowl because there was like a bomber that crashed there
and there's a wing on the run and the lifts are great, great place to go
Number three, our utilities are inexpensive. It's cheap to live here. Now I'm in real estate
Housing prices, depending on where you're coming from, can be a little bit more is super desirable to be here, but the power
We have some of the cheapest power in the nation. We have hydroelectric dams up and down the Columbia River
which runs right between East Winatchie and Winachi. And so that really abundant renewable resource
is provided to us at a really low cost. So you could have a 3,000 square foot house
and be electric forced air heat, electric AC, and your bill could be $100 a month, sometimes less
So it's really affordable. And we have irrigation, a lot of homes have irrigation water
So you get a water your lawn during the summer right For flat fee flat fee Right as much as you want Well as much as you can use there actually a limit but it an abundant resource here
So we have water, we have power, right? We have really good utilities, and you're going to love that
Number four is the location. North Central Washington is central. It's, you've got Highway 97 coming through, and it goes from Leavenworth
You can get the Leavenworth in 20 minutes. You can go up to Lake Chelan in 30 minutes
You can easily head east to Spokane or head west to Seattle
So it's a great central location where you have tons of recreation, tons of things to do
but you can also go commute and leave and have some vacations or visit family and friends
in the bigger cities. Horizon Alaska Air actually fly into East Winachia Pingborn Airport
So we actually have an airport here that has an airline where you can commute directly
to Seattle in 25 minutes. A 25 minute flight, you're in Seattle
And from Seattle, it's a gateway to wherever you want to go. So if you're going to Hawaii or down to California, wherever you want, you can get there
really quickly. You don't necessarily have to drive your car over the passes to Seattle
But if you do want to drive over to Seattle, two and a half hours. You're there on good weather
So it's a great location for that. Number five is the medical facilities
Being centrally located, Confluence and Columbia Valley have great medical facilities. So if you need care or assistance or as we start
aging, you have great access to doctors and medical facilities. It's really great. A lot of people
move here because of that. Number six, water. Water recreation. We have the Columbia River. Fantastic
river where you can go fishing, you can go boating. There's boat launches down in town, multiple state
parks along the river. The PUD, the Schland PUD has parks that you can enjoy. And it's so awesome
because they take care of these parks. They're beautiful. They have park equipment for your kids to play on
and you can get access to the river. It's cool. So if you like, I see people stand up paddle boarding on the river
There's a crew club, a rowing club. People go out there and they do, and there are schools and they're rowing on the river in the morning
And then you got the water sports. So people are fishing, they're water skiing
and they're wakeboarding and all of the above. So it's really cool
And even if you don't do water sports, like myself, I really don't. I love just looking at the river
It's beautiful, it's gorgeous. And 30 minutes away is a 52 mile long lake, Lake Shalan
It's pristine, it's high mountain, it's gorgeous. You'll love going there too
Got the Winachy River for rafting, fishing, well, you can't fish there, but you got rafting there
and you got all these little creeks and streams. So water is abundant, it's absolutely gorgeous
Number seven trails. We have some of the best trail systems in the state
in the Wenatchie Valley. Just on the outside of Winatchy, up on the hill
it's called Sage Hills. Sage Hills is kind of owned by the Schland Douglas Land Trust
PUD and some other public entities and private entities But there a trail system where it multi So you can walk you can hike you can trail run you can ride your mountain bike out there
You can even bring your horse on a lot of those trails. So it's multi-use, so know the rules when you go out there and know the etiquette, but you'll love it
Because there's wildflowers out there, there's tons of nature, there's tons of animals, you'll never know what you're going to see
It's really cool. You'll see the deer one day. You might see a coyote. You might even see it
see a snake. I've seen some snakes out there. People freak out, but they're okay. We're in the
wild here. We're actually in nature. But you're right there in town. Literally, you can get there
out your back door when you live here. You can just ride your bike or just walk to the trail
systems. It's really, really cool. St. Hills connects from Canyon No. 2 all the way up to
Horse Lake Road. You can go up to Horse Lake. This is a great place to go. Great trailhead
right there. But that's just not it. I mean, there's trails everywhere
Ridge, up in Leavenworthers trails. You could probably live here for 50 years, go on a hike every
month for 50 years and not do the same hike. I'm telling you, you will always have a place to go
and you'll find your go-to trails and absolutely love it. Not only that, but we have paved trails
So along the river is called the Apple Capital Trail System, and it's about 10 to 12 miles
and it goes from bridge to bridge. So there's a south bridge and a north bridge that connect
East Winatchie and Wenatchee. You can literally walk, hike, run, bike, a paved trail all the way
around it. It's really cool. People do it all the time. It's safe and it's enjoyable. It's great
for training. It's great for just getting out there. Now, it doesn't stop there. That 10, that 10 mile
loop, 12 mile loop, actually also extends up to the dam. So it goes up to the Rocky Reach Dam on the
East Winatchie side. That's another five miles of paved. beautiful trail system that goes up there
So now you're looking at 10, 15 miles, 20 miles round trip
It also goes down to Hydro Park, down south, towards Rock Island
So you have this cool system all up and down the Columbia River that you'll enjoy
Number eight is Puyves Market and downtown Winatchie. So you want a little bit of a vibe, kind of some trendy, culture, creativity
We have it downtown Winatchie. We got shops, we got salons, we got restaurants, we got wineries
sideries, all downtown, and it all connects down to Puybas Market. Puyves Market is a really cool market down on the river where they have shops and vendors
and restaurants. You'll really love it. It's a great place to go and they have farmers markets on the weekends
They have events happening there. It's a really great place to go
Me and my family love to go there just when we need something to do. We always know if we want something to do, we'll go to Puyves, we'll find something
And when people come to visit us, every time we go to Puy BIS
at least once to one of the restaurants down there. So you definitely want to check that out
Number nine is probably the best thing about Winatchie in the Winatchie Valley is it a small town but it has big city amenities So we have a Home Depot We have a Lowe We have a Costco We have a Walmart So you can do all your shopping here right
And you can get access to everything you can in a big city. We have a mall and we have a down, we have a couple downtown
So that's really cool. So we have that infrastructure in place. But we have a small town
So we have great schools, right? There's a number of elementary schools, middle schools
There's a high school, Winachie High School. And there's also in East Winachie High School
So there's two bigger high schools. public schools, and there's private schools that you can choose from too. So depending if you have
kids or grandkids, there's places for them to go, choices to have. And with a small town
they have really cool events, right? There's always these committees going on, a strong rotary club
a strong chamber club, you got the rack, athletic center, a YMCA. So you have all these small town things
and events going on all the time. School sports, whether it's, you know, middle school, club, volleyball
Little League Baseball, all these things, and you'll see these things happening as you're in Win filmmaking, right
There's always these little events going on, soccer clubs and things, and it gives you that great feel
that you're part of a cool, small community. And number 10 is events
We have the town Toyota Center. This is this really big event
where we have the Winachi Wild. It's a hockey team, like a semi-pro hockey team
but they also have, you know, entertainers come in and big events, right
Where they come in and you can go, go see some artists or some music events, some comedy shows, some bigger, you know, like
motorcross they have in there, rodeos they'll have in there sometimes. And then we have the Performing Arts Center
Right downtown is a Performing Arts Center. It's a cool, cool community Numerica Arts Center where they'll have plays, they'll have like
they'll have bands come in, orchestras come in, they'll have community plays that will happen
every single year so you can go in there and get some art and get some music not only that is if you go up
north or go up to leavenworth they have the sleepy owl theater so there's lots of culture and music
and and things to get into in win at you too so all in all those are the top biggest and best things
about winatchie valley there's so much more about us and i want you guys to learn more and so if you are
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