Hermiston
Hermiston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.

Hermiston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 20,322 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest and fastest-growing city in the Hermiston-Pendleton Micropolitan Statistical Area, the eighth largest Core Based Statistical Area in Oregon with a combined population of 92,261 at the 2020 census. Hermiston sits near the junction of I-82 and I-84, and is 7 miles (11 km) south of the Columbia River, the Washington state line, Lake Wallula, and the McNary Dam. The Hermiston area has become a hub for logistics and data center activity due to the proximity of the I-82 and I-84 interchange, Pacific Northwest fiber-optic backbone, and low power costs.
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Worth seeing in and around Hermiston
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hermiston Butte
Hermiston Butte is a small butte rising above the west side of Hermiston, Oregon. There are a few hiking trails leading to the top, as well as an access road which is closed to public automobile use.
2.2 km · mountain in Oregon, United States of America · Wikipedia - 02Cold Springs Dam
Cold Springs Dam is an earthen dam 7 miles northeast of Hermiston and 3 miles south of the Columbia River in Umatilla County, Oregon. The dam impounds the water of the Umatilla River to create Cold Springs Reservoir, a component of the Umatilla Basin Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
9.3 km · dam in Oregon, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hermiston
- Airports
- Spokane (GEG), 239 km · Portland (PDX), 259 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 293 km
- Stations
- Hermiston Municipal Airport, 2.1 km
- Portland → Hermiston265 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · $24–33
- Spokane → Hermiston247 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · $22–30
- Seattle → Hermiston304 km · quickest by road, 5h 44m · $31–43
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hermiston
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hermiston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Hermiston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.