Mullan Road

The panel stands where the original road crosses SR 26, and north of the highway one of its last public gravel stretches still runs on toward Benge. South of here the road followed the Palouse down to the Snake, a section now grazing land closed to the public. In the summer of 1859 Mullan's crew reached that crossing to find the Snake frightfully swollen by the year's freshet, as he reported, and got their last load over with the most extreme difficulty. Coming back, he moved the road to Dan Lyons's licensed ferry a few miles downstream.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palouse Falls — 5.7 mi
  The falls a Palouse storyteller said a giant beaver's tail made, and that a school of Washtucna children wrote into state law in 2014.

More markers nearby

• Drewyers River — 10 mi