GOLDENDALE — For star-gazers, the view from the Goldendale Observatory will be a little different starting Wednesday, June 29, as crews began to take down the large telescope that’s anchored the ...

For almost 47 years, the Goldendale Observatory has been giving the public a close-up look at the heavens. Perched on a hilltop north of Goldendale, the observatory and 5-acre state park has offered ...

The Goldendale Observatory State Park will reopen temporarily in time for the transit of Mercury across the sun on the morning of Veterans Day. The observatory closed in April 2018 for a $5.6 million ...

Where: Goldendale, Washington, in Klickitat County. WHY: To bask in the vastness of the universe at the Goldendale Observatory (1602 Observatory Drive, Goldendale; 509.773.3141; free admission). WHAT: ...

In fact, the Goldendale Observatory State Park just north of town is considered one of the country’s best places to find the increasingly rare real darkness required to see the brilliance of the ...

GOLDENDALE, Wash. – Things have been looking up at Goldendale Observatory State Park. A $1.5 million renovation is set to begin next month, and the observatory has a newly reconfigured telescope that ...

Goldendale Observatory State Park in Klickitat County offers views of a partial solar eclipse from 4 to 7 p.m., Sunday, May 20, in the interpretive center theater at 1602 Observatory Drive in ...

o Goldendale Observatory is one of only three observatories in Washington open to the public, with the most public hours. Jewett Observatory at Washington State University in Pullman is open to the ...

Goldendale Observatory celebrates 40 years on Saturday. Longtime manager Stephen R. Stout uses the 24.5-inch Cassegrain Reflector telescope, one of the nation's largest public telescopes. (Jamie ...

GOLDENDALE OBSERVATORY, Klickitat County — Stephen Stout can show you things you’ve never seen before, day or night. Weather permitting. The interpretive specialist at the Goldendale Observatory State ...

A full size replica of Stonehenge — as it would appear if newly created — is located near the Maryhill Art Museum overlooking the Columbia River. It was built by the museum's founder, Sam Hill. File ...

GOLDENDALE, Wash. — At the Pacific Northwest’s only public observatory, the first glow you see isn’t starlight, it’s lights from town. On a recent cloudy winter night, it simply created a golden haze, ...