eastbound on U.S. Route 2
- Skykomish — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
The City of Skykomish, located in the northeast corner of King County, began in 1893 as a rail town for the Great Northern railroad. Nestled in mountain forests, and supported over the years by rail, timber, mining, and tourism industries, Skykomish has prospered through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, while many nearby mountain communities have faded back into the green.
- Messier 68 (Wikipedia)
Messier 68 (also known as M68 or NGC 4590) is a globular cluster found in the east south-east of Hydra, away from its precisely equatorial part. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. William Herschel described it as “a beautiful cluster of stars, extremely rich, and so compressed that most of the stars are blended together”. His son John noted that it was “all clearly resolved into stars of 12th magnitude, very loose and ragged at the borders”.
westbound on U.S. Route 2
- Skykomish, Washington (Wikipedia)
Skykomish is a town in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 161 as of the 2020 census, down from an estimated peak of “several thousand” in the 1920s.