Drumheller Channels - Glacial Lake Missoula Flood Features on Waymarking.com

Drumheller Channels connects the Quincy Basin, which lies to north, with the Othello Basin on the south. It can be reached most easily from Othello, Washington approximately 8 km (5 miles) northwest on McManamon Road, then north on Morgan Lake Road which passes through the Drumheller Channels region. The north/south Morgan Lake Road passes through the heart of the channels following Crab Creek. Hikes can be taken, including an interpretive trail, from the wetlands along Crab Creek to the views from an isolated butte, that allow the hiker to gain a sense of this unique landscape. The Drumheller Channels can also be seen from the paved Washington State Highway 262 which runs to the north of the area along the top of the Potholes Reservoir Dam (which has inundated part of the scablands) and from the west side from the heights of the Frenchman Hills.

The geologist who initially recognized and documented the evidence for the Ice-Age floods, J Harlen Bretz, wrote:

“Drumheller is the most spectacular tract of butte and basin scabland on the plateau. It is an almost unbelievable labyrinth of anastamosing channels, rock basins, and small abandoned cataracts”.

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