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Learn more about switching to affordable natural gas, at: NWNatural.com/ConnectToGas B The Dalles-Area Chamber of Commerce what’s inside 2 Introduction 30 Explore Hiking 3 Community Overview 32 Hunting & Fishing Guide 10 Demographics 34 Moving into the Future 12 School & Education 36 Surrounded by History 16 Health & Medical 40 Chamber Benefits 20 Business in The Dalles 43 Community Resources 26 Explore The Dalles 44 Chamber Staff 27 Annual Events 46 Member Directory 28 Places to See BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND VISITOR’S GUIDE 2020-2021 The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce 404 W 2nd St, The Dalles, OR 97058 | 541.296.2231 | thedalleschamber.com 2020 Business Directory and Visitor’s Guide 1 COMMUNITY OVERVIEW Welcome to The Dalles Nestled along the banks of the cherry crop – making The Dalles Oregon City. Their legacies are mighty Columbia River, just 84 the sweet cherry capital of the preserved here in the form of miles east of Portland, The Dalles, world – and grape varieties used petroglyphs, museums, murals, Oregon, offers a multitude of to make award-winning wines. This and in the spirit of the people who opportunities to those who explore makes wine tasting and farm stand continue to care for this land and it. Considered the eastern gateway visiting a must while you’re in The our town. To learn more visit one for the Columbia River Gorge Dalles. of our many cultural and historical National Scenic Area The Dalles Our community has a rich history. attractions! is in the rain shadow of Mt. Hood. As a historic Native American Remember that The Dalles is This unique geography has a trading area, The Dalles has been a just 75 minutes from Portland significant impact on our climate. center of commerce for thousands with 300 days of sun a year and Thanks to the rain shadow effect, of years making it one of the oldest fantastic recreational and cultural The Dalles enjoys 300 days of communities in North America. opportunities, The Dalles is a sunshine a year. Our climate has It was even considered the end wonderland for cyclists, hikers, river everyone casting off their rain gear of the Oregon Trail by pioneers rafters, wildflower fanatics, anglers, and embracing all the recreational who loaded their wagons onto art lovers, history buffs and wine possibilities under the sun! rafts or barges and floated down aficionados. We hope you’ll return The dry and sunny climate also the Columbia to the mouth of the to explore The Dalles area with us nurtures our world-renowned sweet Willamette River, then upriver to again and again! 2 The Dalles-Area Chamber of Commerce HISTORY OF THE DALLES GEOLOGY From the Eocene to Miocene period 40-12 million years ago thousands of volcanic eruptions, mudflows, and basalt floods occurred all over Oregon, including here in the Gorge. Today you can still see the layers of lava and ash along the cliffs of the Gorge. During the Pleistocene (2 million to 700,000 years ago) the Cascade Mountain Range began to grow COMMUNITY taller than ever before causing the Columbia River to cut a deep OVERVIEW near sea-level gorge through the landscape. The Missoula Floods, the largest floods to ever occur, swept INTRODUCTION through the area about 16,000 Located in the rain shadow of and resources. Less than an to 14,000 years ago when an Ice majestic Mt. Hood, The Dalles hour away, Mt. Hood (11,250 Dam, holding back hundreds of is a sunny destination offering feet) provides a paradise for miles of lake water in Canada an abundance of outdoor skiers, hikers, mountain climbers, began to fail. Over the course recreation: cycling, fishing, and those who just want to of three days, nearly 600 cubic hiking, rafting, camping, boating, experience its grandeur. Mt. miles of water drained from the rock climbing, and much more. Adams, the Klickitat Mountains, lake created by the ice dam. For Positioned as the eastern and the Columbia River itself 2,500 years hundreds of floods gateway of the world-renowned also provide stunning vistas. In of this caliber shaped the Gorge. Columbia River Gorge, the about 45 minutes you can find city is surrounded by forests, yourself whitewater rafting on INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES orchards and vineyards, miles the Deschutes River or salmon Our community is built upon of wheat land, high desert, and, fishing at the mouth of any of the legacy of historic Native of course, the mighty Columbia the tributaries that spill into the American Tribes who turned the River. It is an area rich in history Columbia. area into the center of commerce 2020 Business Directory and Visitor’s Guide 3 COMMUNITY OVERVIEW for The Columbia River Gorge CELILO FALLS rights, share salmon culture, nearly 11,000 years ago. Celilo Falls was located on the and provide fisher services. Indigenous Peoples first settled Columbia River, approximately There are also still a few places in the vicinity in 9000 B.C. The 13 miles east of The Dalles. On where you can view some of the Wascos, Wakemaps, Winquatt, March 10th, 1957 Celilo Falls, surviving historic and culturally and Tenino tribes assembled for which had served as a gathering significant artifacts. Columbia trade in The Dalles/Win-quatt place and major trading center Hills State Park, 15 minutes (The Indian name in use for the for the Wasco, Paiute, and Warm from downtown The Dalles area was Win-quatt), signifying Springs Tribes for thousands offers tours of some surviving a place encircled by rock cliffs.) of years, were inundated as petroglyphs and pictographs. long before pioneers came to the newly completed The Including the famous, and ever the west. They traded with tribes Dalles Lock & Dam went into watchful Tsagaglalal, or “She that lived as far away as British operation, creating a backwater Who Watches.” The Maryhill Columbia, California, and Idaho. that stretched twenty-four miles Museum of Art presents exhibits When European Settlers began and submerged tribal fishing featuring ancient petroglyphs, colonizing the west the native and grazing grounds as well as intricate baskets, beadwork and a populations were decimated culturally important places and vast array of artifacts from Pacific by disease. However, the pictographs and petroglyphs. Northwest and North American Wascos maintained peace with The completion of The Dalles tribes. traders, boatman, and settlers. Lock & Dam facilitated easier Despite this, Native Americans river traffic and provided hydro- LEWIS AND CLARK The Dalles served twice as a were forcibly relocated by electric power for the region. campsite for the Lewis & Clark the U.S. Military to the Warm COLUMBIA BASIN TRIBES TODAY expedition –once in October Springs Reservation in 1855. Today The Columbia River 1805 and again in April 1806 Causing great unrest amongst Inter-Tribal Fish Commission – before developing into a Indigenous Communities as they continues its mission to put fish key regional center for the fur fought for their homeland. Fort back in the rivers and protect trade, supporting a Hudson’s Dalles became a central military watersheds where fish live, Bay Company outpost in 1829. headquarters for dispatching protect tribal treaty fishing Fur traders came through in the troops to combat this unrest. 4 The Dalles-Area Chamber of Commerce 1810s and 1820s. Trappers, was in 1814. The town became that lived on the south shore explorers, other military known as City of The Dalles in of the Columbia River, near expeditions and immigrants 1860 and was officially adopted The Dalles, Oregon. Created soon followed, with important by city ordinance to conform on January 11th, 1854 Wasco centers of influence developing with popular usage. County was the largest county at Fort Vancouver and Fort in the history of the United Dalles. (Today visitors can still THE OREGON TRAIL (1841 – 1866) States, covering 130,000 For twenty-five years, half a experience some of this history square miles. Although million people pulled up stakes eventually seventeen other by visiting The Fort Dalles and headed for the farms and counties were created out of Museum, The Rock Fort, and gold fields of the West. Oregon Wasco County. Today Wasco Historical Murals located in The was the destination for about a County has been reduced to Dalles.) Explorers, botanists, third of the emigrants. This was 2,408 square miles. artists, writers, and adventurers the last of the Great Migrations. all came to the “grand dalles of For three years The Dalles was THE HISTORIC the Columbia.” the end of the Oregon Trail as COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY The Historic Columbia River The Hudson’s Bay boatmen and an overland route. The Dalles Highway is an approximately the French-Canadian fur traders became a critical stop for 75-mile-long (121 km) scenic called the greatest rapids pioneers following the Oregon highway in the U.S. state of on the Columbia River “Le Trail. Those who wished to Oregon between Troutdale Grand Dalles de la Columbia.” continue heading west of The and The Dalles, built through These rapids became known Dalles had little choice but to the Columbia River Gorge as the “Long Narrows,” and make a raft of pine logs.