Museums
Carpenter House Museum
Check pricesA 1914 mansion in Cle Elum that preserves the history of the area's mining communities and the family of a local banker and former mayor.
Museums
Telephone Museum
A brick former telephone exchange in Cle Elum that shows how local phone service worked from 1876 to 1970.
221 East 1st Street, Cle Elum WA 98922 · Cle Elum, WA
About Telephone Museum
Run by the Northern Kittitas County Historical Society, this museum occupies a brick building that replaced an earlier structure lost in a 1918 fire. Operators worked its switchboards until 1966, when Cle Elum's calls stopped needing manual connection. Pacific Northwest Bell later gave the building and its equipment to the historical society. Exhibits cover telephone technology across nearly a century, including models of early patents from Alexander Graham Bell, a retired switchboard, and a working dial phone switching system.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to Telephone Museum, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
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South Cle Elum Rail Yard Interpretive Center
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L. T. Murray Wildlife Area
Check pricesA large state wildlife area west of Ellensburg, mixing forest, shrubsteppe, and streams for hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching.
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Yakima River Wildlife Area
Check pricesA Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife unit of multiple properties along the Yakima River, managed mainly to protect wildlife habitat.
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Transit: reachable by public transit
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Rocky Reach Discovery Center
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