Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Library has Discover Passes to loan
Surrounded by basalt cliffs, the Palouse River meanders downstream towards the Snake River after it drops over Palouse Falls. This state park near Washtucna is one of the local areas accessible with a Discover Pass.
ADAMS COUNTY – If you're looking to get out of the house or out of town, East Adams Library District has four Discover Passes available for library patrons in good standing to borrow for up to two weeks at a time.
A program called "Check Out Washington" offered by Washington State Parks in partnership with the Washington State Library, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources makes the passes available for purchase by library districts, with almost half of the public libraries in Washington signed up.
The Discover Pass provides access to millions of acres of state parks and other state public lands. Among the areas in northeast Washington requiring the pass are Curlew Lake, Crawford/Gardner Cave, Mount Spokane, Riverside/Nine Mile Recreation Area, Centennial Trail and the Columbia Plateau Trail.
In southeast Washington, the Discover Pass will get you in to Steptoe Battlefield and Steptoe Butte, Palouse Falls and Lyons Ferry, Camp Wooten, Fields Spring and the Lewis and Clark Trail, to name a few.
The Columbia Gorge Region includes Goldendale Observatory, Maryhill, Columbia Hills, Doug's Beach, Spring Creek Hatchery, Beacon Rock, and Reed Island.
Water access areas in Adams County accessible with a Discovery Pass include Cow Lake, Lyle Lake and Sprague Lake.
Lands managed by the Department of Natural Resources, including campgrounds, are also accessible with the pass; as well as wildlife areas, natural area preserves and natural resources conservation areas.
When you borrow the Discover Pass, the library includes a map of Washington State Parks accessible with the pass. When the program started last year, borrowing the pass yielded a patron a backpack including binoculars and field guides. Due to sanitation needs between users due to COVID-19, those items aren't included this year. The passes and maps are quarantined for at least 72 hours between users.
To borrow a pass, library patrons can log in to the library website online or call the library between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to reserve it. A staff member will call you to set up a time for you to pick it up at the front door of the library.
Borrowing the pass is free of charge; however, if you lose it, the library will need to charge you $50 to replace it.
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