

Outskirts of Lapwai, Idaho from Beaver Canyon Road. The Palouse region is a large prairie in the Inland Pacific Northwest that spills from Eastern Washington into Northern Idaho. It lies lies 160 miles north of the Oregon Trail and is fed by the Clearwater and Snake rivers, which run into the Columbia. The silt bottoms of the landscape combined with these various rivers and their numerous tributaries provide the area with some of the most fertile wheat farming opportunities in the country.