Dr. Earl F. Cater, Director of the Douglas County Museum in Waterville, presented “The Geology of Sunset Highway.”

Early Euro-American explorations of the Big Bend country;
Difficulty in getting to Douglas County because of elevation and size;
Barriers to Euro-American settlement: Rocks and no roads, Banks Lake area’s 800-feet high basalt cliffs, Corbaley Canyon’s fractured gneiss and schist, rockslides from basalt layers;
Obstacles from glaciation: Yeager Rock and multiple haystack rocks and other glacial features;
The first stage in Okanogan, March 1884: The Jack Smith story;
1913 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Red Trail;
1926 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Yellowstone Trail.

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