Walla Walla, WA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

WALLA WALLA , about 120 miles east of Yakima along I-82 and US-12, is an uneventful college and agricultural town, known best for its sweet onions, eaten raw like apples. There's little to see now, but this was the place where the missionary Dr Marcus Whitman arrived from the East Coast in 1836. Unsuccessful in his bid to convert the local Cayuse into crop-growing Christians, he turned his attention to white settlers. In 1843, Whitman helped guide the first wagon-train across the Oregon Trail, and his mission became a refuge for sick and orphaned travelers. The Cayuse eyed the ever-increasing emigrants … more »