Best Places to Take a Selfie

Want to take that perfect selfie to show the friends back home what you’re doing in the Yakima Valley? Here are a few suggestions for some of the best selfie locations up and down the valley. Start your trip with a selfie at the Yakima Valley Visitor Information Center by the “Welcome to the Yakima Valley” sign and the HUGE wine barrel!

WINERIES & VINEYARDS

1. Wilridge Winery’s vineyards are bordered with a walking path down into Cowiche Canyon.
2. Bonair Winery has beautiful vineyards next to their French chateau-style winery.
3. Paradisos Del Sol next to their Wine Dragon metal sculpture.
4. Silverlake Winery overlooking their beautiful vineyard with the hills in distance.
5. Treveri Cellars’ patio on a clear day with Mount Adams in the distance.
6. Take a drive along Gilbert Road in Zillah. Snap a selfie with vineyards and the Hyatt Winery windmill in distance.
7. Walter Clore Center – Take a picture with the father of Washington wine (well, a statue of him anyway)!
8. Take a selfie with a horse on the Red Mountain Trail Ride to the wineries of Benton City.

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

9. Visit Sunnyside and take a selfie next to the bronze statue of Ben Snipes branding a calf, pose next to astronaut Bonnie Dunbar’s statue, or take a selfie with the statue of the girl milking a cow on the Centennial Pathway.
10. Do your best “teapot” pose at the Historic Teapot Dome in Zillah.
11. Downtown Yakima – In front of the Historic Capitol Theatre during the day, or in front of the multicolored lights of the Larson Building at night.
12. The Merci Train Boxcar, one of 49 French railroad boxcars that was a “thank-you” gift to the United States in 1949, on display in Sarg Hubbard Park on the Yakima Greenway.
13. Sitting on one of the antique tractors at the Central Washington Ag Museum.
14. Take a selfie in front of the covered wagon in Union Gap.
15. Sitting on one of the cement dinosaurs scattered throughout Granger.
16. In front of the “Welcome to Tieton” mosaic sign, or one of the other artfully produced mosaic signs that Mighty Tieton has created.
17. In the Neon Garden in the Yakima Valley Museum.
18. Take a picture with the conductor of the Yakima Electric Railway Museum Trolley before hopping aboard for a ride.

SELFIES ON THE FARM

19. Bale Breaker Brewery is set in the middle of a working hop field.
20. WA Fruit Place at Barrett’s Orchards’ cherry orchards makes a great spot for selfies.
21. Johnson Orchards features a 100 year old farm fruit stand.
22. Jones Farms’ apple orchards in the summer, and pumpkins and their hay maze in the fall.
23. Thompson Farm Market’s pig race and pumpkin cannon makes for some awesome selfies.
24. Bills Berry Farm – Take selfies with their ponies at one of the many farm festivals.
25. Tree Top Visitor Center – Take a selfie where Tree Top juice comes from!