Lester
Lester is a ghost town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway. Lester is located along what is currently National Forest Development Road 54, on land now owned by Tacoma Water, a division of Tacoma Public Utilities.Photo: BryonDavis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Washington, United States of America
- Also known as: “Deans” and “Lester, Washington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snoqualmie National Forest.
Snoqualmie National Forest
Nature reserve
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest is a National Forest in Washington extending more than 140 miles along the western slopes of the Cascade Range from the Canada–US border to the northern boundary of Mount Rainier National Park. Snoqualmie National Forest is situated 2 miles southeast of Lester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hot Springs and Nagrom.
Hot Springs
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hot Springs is a ghost town in King County, Washington, United States. Properly Green River Hot Springs, the town was first settled under the name Kendon by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1886. Hot Springs is situated 2½ miles west of Lester.
Nagrom
Locality
Nagrom is a ghost town in King County, Washington, United States. Nagrom is situated 5 miles west of Lester.
Lester
- Category: ghost town
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.20892° or 47° 12′ 32″ northLongitude
-121.49006° or 121° 29′ 24″ westElevation
1,634 feet (498 metres)Open location code
84VW6G55+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 150939387OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Western Frisian—“Lester” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lester”
- German: “Lester”
- Hungarian: “Lester”
- Japanese: “レスター”
- Urdu: “لیسٹر، واشنگٹن”
- Volapük: “Lester (WA)”
- Volapük: “Lester, WA”
- Volapük: “Lester, Washington”
- Volapük: “Lester”
- Western Frisian: “Lester”
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