Open May 1 through September 30
High-Use Seasonal Period: June 15 through September 15

Sites: 69 Full / 54 Partial
Check in: 9 AM to 5 PM
Check out: 11 AM
Maximum Electrical: 30 amps
Maximum RV Length: 40 ft.

Directions:
The resort is 2 and 1/2 miles north of the town of Soap Lake on Hwy. 17.

If you’re looking for great scenery and sightseeing, relaxation, and a friendly atmosphere, Western Horizon Resort’s Soap Lake in central Washington is the place for one of your next vacations.

Dating back to the time when the Native Americans named it Smoliam or “healing waters,” Soap Lake has had a mixture of 16 minerals reputed to have therapeutic value. When settlers saw the wind whip the minerals and salts into a soapy froth along the shoreline, they renamed it Soap Lake. Even though the lake is 300 feet deep in places, the water temperature remains at 87 degrees in summer, making it a pleasant and interesting place for swimming. If you aren’t interested in being in the buoyant lake water, try one of the hot mineral baths that are available.

If you travel north on US 2, stop in Coulee City, the only place you can cross the Grand Coulee between Soap Lake and Coulee Dam. Grand Coulee was formed when floods during the last ice age gouged out huge areas of land. At Dry Falls, you can see where a 3-mile-wide waterfall once fell into the gorge below. Be sure to tour the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric dams and the most massive concrete structure in the world. At 550 feet high, 500 feet wide at its base, and 5,223 feet long, the dam harnesses the Columbia River for irrigation, power, and flood control. It is an impressive sight, especiallyon summer nights when a laser show lights up the spillway.

Northeast of the dam is the 100,059-acre Coulee Dam National Recreation Area, where volcanic eruptions and ice age floods have left the area with unusual geologic formations. Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, an enormous storage reservoir, offers beaches for swimming, boating, and water skiing at its 34 developed recreation sites. When the dam was completed, the underlying lava rock allowed water from the reservoirs to seep and surface everywhere there was a low area. The Pothold Recreation Area south of Moses Lake is a prime example.