In which US state is the Klickitat River?
Klickitat River Plateau. It enters northern Klickitat County, and meanders south through steep canyons. It enters the Columbia from the north at Lyle, approximately north-northwest of The Dalles, Oregon. State Route 142 follows the lower of the river. The river is bridged by State Route 14 at its mouth. The Klickitat Trail follows the river on an abandoned railroad grade from near Goldendale, Washington to the Columbia River just west of The Dalles, Oregon, nearly . Klickitat River The Klickitat River is a tributary of the Columbia River, nearly long, in south-central Washington in the United States. It drains a rugged plateau
Klickitat people were noted for being active and enterprising traders, and served as intermediaries between the coastal tribes and those living east of the Cascade Mountains. The ethnonym "Klikitat" is said to derive from a Chinookan word meaning "beyond," in reference to the Rocky Mountains. The Klickitat, however, call themselves "Qwû'lh-hwai-pûm" or "χwálχwaypam", meaning "prairie people" (X̣ʷáɬx̣ʷaypam). The Yakama called them "Xwálxwaypam" or "L'ataxat". Other names for the Klickitat include: The ancestral lands of the Klickitat were situated north of the Columbia River, at the headwaters of the Cowlitz, Lewis, White Salmon, and Klickitat rivers, in present-day Klickitat and Skamania Counties. They