Peola, Washington — Where Wheat Country Starts Climbing

South of Pomeroy, the plateau begins changing character on the way toward the Blue Mountains. Peola is the name on that transition.

Farms and ranches occupy uplands where increasing elevation changes weather, vegetation and road conditions. Snow lingers longer than it does near the Snake River. Forest draws closer. The broad wheat country begins giving up the horizon.

Peola developed as a rural district for families spread across farms rather than a dense commercial town, and that remains the useful way to understand it.

Leave Pomeroy and keep climbing. The landscape will explain Peola before a street sign does.