Everything about Green River Washington totally explained
The
Green River is a 65 mile long river in the state of
Washington in the
United States, arising on the western slopes of the
Cascade Mountains south of
I-90.
The upper Green River valley forms the western approach to
Stampede Pass, and was once home to many small railroad and logging towns such as Weston,
Lester, Green River Hot Springs, Nagrom, Maywood, Humphreys, Eagle Gorge, Lemolo, and Kanaskat. Shortly before World War One, the City of
Tacoma, Washington, filed for water rights on the Green River. Today, much of the upper valley has become a gated
water supply watershed for Tacoma and access is heavily restricted.
Between 1880 and 1888, the Northern Pacific Railway explored and surveyed the Green River. The railway inally constructing the first direct rail link across Washington's
Cascade Range with the opening of their Stampede Tunnel in 1888.
The Green and White Rivers once met in downtown Auburn, Washington, but diversions circa 1900 forced the Green into a permanent northern route into the
Duwamish River and thence
Elliott Bay at
Seattle. By contrast, the White was turned south at Auburn, flowing into the
Puyallup River and later
Commencement Bay in
Tacoma.
Most of the river above and including Howard A. Hanson Reservoir are part of the Green River Watershed, which is closed to public access. West of the Green River Watershed at Kanaskat, the river passes through the Green River Gorge with cliffs rising sharply as much as 300 feet from the riverbed.
Flaming Geyser State Park,
Nolte State Park, and
Kanaskat-Palmer State Park are located in this area.
Downstream from the Green River Gorge is the half-mile wide Green River Valley, where farmland has been protected from development. An attempt to locate a bike trail along the valley walls has encountered fierce resistance from farmers. As a result, bikes must share the road with autos as it winds through the pastoral landscape.
At
Auburn, Washington, the Green River emerges from the Green River Valley and enters the much larger Kent Valley, which was created by glacial action during the
Pleistocene ice ages, then filled in by river sediments and
lahars from
Mount Rainier. After flowing generally west from its source, at Auburn the river turns north, entering a zone of light-industrial and retail development. A public multiuse
trail runs along the river through most of this valley.
The Green River's name changes to
Duwamish River where it once joined the
Black River, just outside of
Tukwila. (The Black River dried up when
Lake Washington's water level fell with the opening of the
Lake Washington Ship Canal.) The Duwamish empties into
Elliott Bay in
Seattle, Washington. Its industrialized
estuary is known as the
Duwamish Waterway.
The Green River is infamous as the location where the first victims of the serial killer
Gary Leon Ridgway were found. Although only a few bodies were found in the river, because they were the first victims the unidentified killer was known as the "Green River Killer" until the arrest of Ridgway.
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