Olmstead Place State Park is a 217-acre day-use park that features a working pioneer farm. The park hosts tours and school field trips. Pioneer artifacts are plentiful in the park, and many can be seen in action in the work of maintaining the farm. Picnic space and walking trails interweave with interpretive activities.

Marine Park: No

Summer: 6:30 a.m. to dusk.
Winter: 8 a.m. to dusk.

The park is open year round for day use. Call the park at (509) 925-1943 for appointments and information.

This area is the location of one of the first homesteads in the Kittitas valley. The Olmstead family arrived in 1875 and lived on the farm for about 100 years before donating it to Washington State Parks in 1968. Today, it continues to be a working farm, with some of the land still worked with old-fashioned equipment. The original 1875 log cabin and 1908 farmhouse (with the family's furnishings intact) are still standing, as are most of the outbuildings.

This pioneer working farm offers both elaborate school field trips and guided tours for the public. School field trips include a tour of an old log cabin and farmhouse plus butter-churning, covered-wagon rides and pioneer games. Pioneer artifacts on display at the farm include tools, furniture, clothing, farm implements and machinery.

Free guided public tours take place weekends from noon to 4 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day. Group tours and school field trips are available for a fee. To book tours and field trips, call the park at (509) 925-1943.