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Sun Lakes State Park |
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Sun Lakes State Park is a camping park with 73,640 feet of freshwater shoreline situated at the foot of Dry Falls. Dry Falls is one of the greatest geological wonders of North America. Carved by ice-age floods that long ago disappeared, the former waterfall is now a stark cliff, 400 feet high and 3.5 miles wide. In its heyday, the waterfall was ten times the size of Niagara Falls. Originally called "Dry Falls," Sun Lakes was renamed to better describe the area. Victor A. Myers, lieutenant governor at the time, suggested the change. Today it overlooks a desert oasis filled with lakes and abundant wildlife.
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Sun Lakes State Park covers an area of 4,027-acre. The park provides two boat ramps and 20 feet of dock. Water-skiing activities are restricted during certain times of the year. A daily permit is available for watercraft launching and trailer dumping at the Park. A visitor center is located on the site of the falls. A 9-hole golf course, a miniature golf course and a laundromat are among other amenities of the park.
Boats are rentable for exploring the nine lakes of Sun Lakes State Park. Four of the seven lakes in the park were formed by former plunge pools from the Falls. The park is on the north side of over 10,000 acres of the best example of the channeled scab lands from the Lake Missoula floods that dot eastern Washington. The park is part of the geologic formation created by runoff from the last glaciation. Camping, swimming, boating, fishing, picnicking, golf, horseback riding, sun bathing, hiking, interpretive viewing and canoing are the popular activities of the park.
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