WHITE SWAN — Teenagers batted balloons near the parking lot of Fort Simcoe Historical State Park as children explored a small playground. The smell of meat grilling wafted around a picnic shelter. The ...

A state park deep on the Yakama Reservation has reopened for the season with much happening behind the scenes over the past several months, from improvements to structures to discussion about how to ...

Location: White Swan (Yakima County). Length: Over a half-mile of trails. Level of difficulty: Level dirt/grassy paths. Setting: This fascinating 200-acre park located east of Mount Adams in the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is a collaboration between the Northwest News Network, Northwest Public Broadcasting and the Yakima Herald-Republic. A cultural edit was provided by Jiselle Halfmoon, of ...

WHITE SWAN, Wash. — Washington state’s website for Fort Simcoe State Park highlights the military history of the park 30 miles southeast of Yakima. “Fort Simcoe is one of the few remaining pre-Civil ...

Since time immemorial, Native Tribes in the Columbia Basin met at a village crossroads called Mool-Mool. In the wake of the Yakama Treaty of 1855, the site was of continual use as a U.S. military ...

Nine black bears have made themselves at home in Fort Simcoe State Park this summer, but they haven’t taken kindly to people trying to take their pictures. When the bears began aggressively warning ...

WHITE SWAN, Yakima County — Fort Simcoe Historical State Park is closed for the winter, its main entrance barred by a gate and its public buildings locked until April. But people are still coming, ...

WHITE SWAN, WA. - The Yakama Indian Nation is partnering up with Washington State Parks to relocate multiple bears near White Swan. Fort Simcoe State Park just outside White Swan has been closed ...

WHITE SWAN — Fort Simcoe State Park near White Swan has been closed because of bear activity. Park officials say the problem wasn’t the bears approaching people, but people approaching the bears ...