Nestled where the wild Klickitat River slices through towering basalt canyons in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, the tiny town of Klickitat (population ~320) feels like the Pacific Northwest’s best-kept secret.
Long before the highway showed up, this was the homeland of the Klickitat Tribe—master salmon fishermen and horsemen who gave the river and the town their name. By the early 1900s the whistle of steam locomotives echoed off the canyon walls as a new railroad hauled giant fir and pine logs from massive lumber mills that employed nearly everyone in the canyon. From 1909 to 1994 those mills were the heartbeat of the community.
When the last mill closed, the rails went quiet… then came back to life as the 31-mile Klickitat Rail Trail. Today the canyon hums with drift boats bouncing through rapids, fly rods whipping over steelhead water, mountain bikes rolling the trail, and rafts full of laughing friends floating past on summer afternoons. The Klickitat is one of the longest free-flowing, undammed rivers left in the Lower 48.
✓ Full river shuttle service
✓ Fishing & hunting licenses
✓ Live bait, tackle, flies
✓ Custom sack lunches
✓ Fresh pizza & cold beer
✓ Firewood, propane, supplies
✓ Strong coffee at 6:30am
We’ve got what you need to make your Klickitat adventure even better.
Klickitat Canyon Market sits at the center of it all at 100 N Main St—open early for coffee, open late for cold beer and pizza. Since 2008, same family, same small-town soul, same promise: we’ve got what you need.
Pull in, say hi, and let the river do the rest. We’ll see you on the water!
