The State Park Experience
Clara Dickinson-McQuary wants to make the State Park experience better throughout Southeast Washington
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Dian Ver Valen
Fields Spring State Park is a year-round park south of Anatone with camping, cabins, hiking, tubing and more.
DAYTON - Clara Dickinson-McQuary graduated from Dayton High School in 2004. She left the Touchet Valley at age 18 and traveled the world. A year ago, she returned to Dayton.
"I thought I was just passing through," she said. But that wasn't the case at all. For the first time in her life, she fell in love with her birth place. "It's taken me a long time to appreciate this area," she said.
Now she is employed full time by Washington State Parks to share that love with the world and bring visitors to the state parks in the Blue Mountains. She is one of only a handful of parks program special...
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