15 Facts About Wenatchee Washington

Wenatchee Washington is referred to as the "Apple Capital of the World" due to the valley's many orchards.

In 1811, North West Company surveyor David Thompson encountered a group of Native American horsemen at Wenatchee Washington and was invited into a village with huts, the largest measuring 209 feet long.

Wenatchee Washington was followed some 20 years later by Father De Grassi, who built a log cabin on the Wenatchee River near the present town of Cashmere.

The Wenatchee Washington chapter hosted the 1926 state Klan convention and marched in the Apple Blossom Parade.

In 1936, with the completion of Rock Island Dam, Wenatchee Washington was protected from the summer flooding of the Columbia River, and the first of 14 hydroelectric projects on the Columbia began generating electric power.

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Wenatchee Washington grows, packs and ships tree fruit and would go on to become the largest fresh market sweet cherry shipper in the world.

In November 2018, USA Today listed Wenatchee Washington as experiencing the 22nd highest employment growth in the country.

Wenatchee Washington is located at the confluence of the Wenatchee Washington and Columbia rivers in the Columbia Basin, just east of the foothills of the Cascade Range.

Wenatchee Washington is home to Mariachi Huenachi, a much-celebrated mariachi program in the Wenatchee Washington School District which performed at the US Capitol for National Hispanic Heritage Month in 2017.

Wenatchee Washington Valley Super Oval in East Wenatchee Washington is a quarter-mile-long banked asphalt oval used for local racing.

Much of the hillside areas surrounding the city of Wenatchee Washington have been purchased by or have their rights held by the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust which protects them as a natural resource and as a site for hiking in the foothills.

Public safety in Wenatchee is provided by three law enforcement agencies, one fire department, and two private ambulance companies .

Transit services within Wenatchee Washington is provided by Link Transit, which serves all of Chelan County and parts of Douglas County.

Wenatchee Washington is in the major railroad line of the BNSF Railway to Seattle.

Wenatchee Washington was once the eastern terminus of the Great Northern electric-driven train service on its New Cascade Tunnel route via the Chumstick Valley, which went all the way to Skykomish.