Chelan, Washington
Chelan County · Population 4,222 · Card no. 1019
Chelan sits at the foot of a fifty-mile lake that is among the deepest in the country, and the town's whole economy is the water and what grows above it.
- Lake Chelan is over 1,400 feet deep.
- The only way to Stehekin at the far end is by boat, floatplane or foot.
- The name is from a Salish word meaning deep water.
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