Okanogan Country Art Trail | North County

The US Armed Forces Legacy Project is both a project and an organization located adjacent to the city of Tonasket Washington. The Legacy honors living veterans as well as those who are deceased. There are currently over 450 plaques that honor members of the armed forces.

A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting arts & cultural enrichment in North Okanogan County, with a strong emphasis on families, youth, & community. They offer a venue for the arts and cultural events, and as a public facility available to rent. The Center is a place for meetings, classes, local theater, concerts, dances, bazaars, and fairs. Also a commercial kitchen for those needing a certified food prep area.

Famous Western artist JB Lucas painted these murals in the 1940’s. Visit the family-friendly Tonasket Saloon to see.

Beside the Visitors Information Center

By artist Lissa Mensik, on the side of the Police Department building.

The Loomis to Similkameen to Oroville loop takes you past the ghost town of Nighthawk (registered with the Historical Society as a ghost town) and the old Enloe Dam. Nighthawk was not only a mining town but was also a supply center for the mines in the area.The Nighthawk hotel, original schoolhouse, a mining office and old mill are all still standing – relics from the first decades of the twentieth century. The Enloe is a picturesque de-commissioned dam (on the National Register of Historic Places) that looks almost like a natural waterfall.

The Oroville Depot Museum includes both permanent historical displays and a large section that is changed every year. The permanent dispays feature a collection of Oroville's rich history, including information on the Railway revolution. It also provides an educational outlook on Native American influence.

Art exists in downtown Oroville! Painter and Muralist Abderrahim (Rahim) Ambari has completed his Eagle Mural at the Camaray Motel. Rahim was born in 1971 and raised in Sale, Morocco. He came to America in 1998 and has had his work shown throughout the United States and Morocco.

Surrounded by quiet blue mountain peaks bordering a whispering sea of prairie grass, it is hard to imagine anthing more than peaceful serenity in this unassuming community of Molson. In the 1900 a regional mining boon ignited hundreds of claims and construction was fast and furious in Molson. Come and explore where all the action took place in Molson.

Old Molson Museum - Mural by Frederick Sutliffe

Just South of Bodie Creek lays the ghost town Bodie, which orginated as a mining town around 1888. Bodie processed and milled ore up until the 1930's, when the price of gold rose and the craze began. Today many structures still remain to be explored. 

MacDonald’s gravesite is commemorated as a Washington State Park on the Kettle River, just South of the Canadian border. It features a sign & mural by Charlene Payton hightlighting MacDonald's impact on Japanese-American negogiations, and the success he had in the Northwest. 

The Antique Auto and Truck Museum features a admirable collection of antique automobiles and engines, as well as antique farm machinery and blacksmith exhibits. No admission charge, but donations are welcomed. Tours are available by arrangement. 

Built in 1903 in Curlew, Washington (now designated a ghost town), the Ansorge Hotel still retains many of its original furnishings and all of its charm. Unlike most big-city museums, the curators of the small, but lovingly cared for museum, still allow their visitors to browse nearly every room in the hotel. Don’t overlook details like the knotted rope ladders at each of the second-story windows. Tours available May - September by appointment.  The museum closes for the season in  September.

Ferry County Fairgrounds, Republic - Local artists commissioned to create panels for completely restored heritage carousel.

Located in Repubic.

Mural by Brad Woods, on PUD building

Located in Republic.

Entrance to town, Republic - By artist Brad Woods Ferry Trails Art Gallery Republic - 775-2249 ferrycounty.com

Dig and keep your own fossils. 

Drive or walk through Conconully to view more than 80 woodin quilts that are located on the sides of business, homes, and public buildings for your viewing pleasure.

In Conconully Community Hall By Dennis Conger.

Located in Conconully.

The old Ruby City aka “Babylon of the West,” was one of the most famous mining towns in the Northwest and was the county seat for 11 months. Today, stone foundations are all that remain of a city that once included six general stores, plenty of saloons and several hotels.

Matsura Park, which straddles the north fork of Salmon Creek as is flows through town, honors his genius.