1903 Map of Snoqualmie

About this map

The Northern Pacific RR carves a critical path through this high mountain corridor, dominated by the engineering feat of the Stampede Tunnel. Surveyed at the turn of the century, the landscape is defined by the logistics of transcontinental rail travel, with small stations and settlements like Lester, Stampede, and Borup serving as vital mountain outposts. The map documents a time when access to these peaks was almost entirely dependent on the steel rails threading through Stampede Pass and along the shores of Keechelus Lake.