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Snoqualmie Falls
A spectacular 82-meter waterfall east of Seattle, sacred to the Snoqualmie people and featured in Twin Peaks.
36 km · about 40 min drive
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Sultan
Washington, United States · North America
About Sultan
Sultan sits on the route: 10 minutes from Woods Creek, 36km from Snoqualmie Falls.
Sultan is in Washington, United States, with about 4,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Woods Creek, about 6 km away.
The Sultan River is a river in Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary of the Skykomish River, which it joins at the town of Sultan, Washington. The river is dammed in its upper third by Culmback Dam to form Spada Lake.
Both the Sultan River and the town of Sultan were named by prospectorsRead more
for the chief of a Snohomish sub-tribe who lived on the Skykomish River in the 1870s. His name was Tsul-tad or Tseul-tud, which was anglicized by the miners into Sultan.
The Sultan River's drainage basin was subjected to intense glaciation during the Pleistocene era. The river flows through a well-defined glacially carved trench. The upper South Fork Sultan River flows through a classic U-shaped valley cut by a glacier through Quartz diorite. The Sultan's river main tributaries—the North Fork, South Fork, Elk Creek, and Williamson Creek— flow through narrow valleys to converge in the lower Sultan basin where the valley floor is relatively broad. The Sultan River exits this basin by plunging abruptly into and through a narrow canyon.
Pleistocene glaciers spread down the valleys of the Sultan River and its tributaries, merging in the lower basin. From there the ice pushed west through what is now the Pilchuck River valley. Today the two rivers are separated by the terminal moraine of an ice front that spread up the Pilchuck valley and impounded the Sultan River, creating a lake. This glacial lake eventually drained westward, creating a delta moraine. The postglacial Sultan River cut through the delta moraine, establishing its present course out of the lower Sultan basin.
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What is there to see near Sultan?
Within an hour or so of Sultan: Snoqualmie Falls (36 km), Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) (48 km), Space Needle (48 km).
Are there any good drives near Sultan?
The nearest famous roads are Chuckanut Drive (WA-11), Chinook Pass and North Cascades Highway (WA-20).
Where is Sultan?
Sultan is in Washington, United States, about 6 km from Woods Creek.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 4,798
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Washington
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 47.8626, -121.8165
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Essential numbers in United States
AAA roadside assistance: 1-800-222-4357. Right turn on red is legal in most states unless signed otherwise.
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Worth the detour from Sultan
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
Frank Gehry-designed museum celebrating contemporary popular culture through music, sci-fi, fantasy, and video game exhibits.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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Space Needle
Futuristic observation tower built for the 1962 World's Fair, an iconic symbol of Seattle's skyline.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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