Picture this: a city where towering evergreens meet sparkling waterways, where art galleries sit next to century-old gardens, ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Mother Nature is helping Washington return a man-made lake to its natural state. The state is restoring Capitol Lake, a lake created by an Olympia dam in the 1950s, to an estuary. The ...
OLYMPIA — In the 1950s, builders of Olympia’s Fifth Avenue Dam realized a vision laid out by designers of the state Capitol Campus decades earlier by creating Capitol Lake, a reflecting pool that ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. - This is them all over this thing, said Allen Pleus as he held up a piece of driftwood pulled from Capitol Lake. The State Fish & Wildlife Department's Aquatic Invasive Species ...
The Port of Olympia Commission voted 2-1 on Monday to endorse the state’s plan to allow Capitol Lake to revert to an estuary. The long-term management plan for the Deschutes Estuary, which includes ...
Some roads in downtown Olympia were closed off due to flooding caused by a combination of record-breaking king tides in Puget Sound and rain. Sections of Fourth Avenue, Water Street, Columbia Street ...
The Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake, 2300 Evergreen Park Drive SW. Steve Bloom [email protected] The Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake, perhaps best known as a former Red Lion on the city’s west side, ...