Ephrata, WA

united states

Ephrata sits in Washington's Columbia Basin along Highway 28, serving as Grant County's seat amid wheat fields and dramatic scabland geology carved by ancient floods. The city connects east to Wenatchee and west toward the Columbia River, with State Route 17 running north-south to Moses Lake and beyond. Most distinctive are the surrounding channeled scablands, where Ice Age floods created a striking maze of coulees across the high desert landscape.