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Hermiston

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

Hermiston
Hermiston · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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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What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hermiston 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
  2. 02
    Cold 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Hermiston
    265 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · $24–33
  • Spokane → Hermiston
    247 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · $22–30
  • Seattle → Hermiston
    304 km · quickest by road, 5h 44m · $31–43
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    366 km
  2. 02459 km
  3. 03
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    507 km
  4. 04
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    509 km
  5. 05
    Powell River and the upper Sunshine CoastCA

    12 ways of moving, 22 sources

    592 km

If you know how people move in Hermiston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hermiston

  • Stanfieldcity in Oregon, USA7.8 km
  • McNaryunincorporated community in Oregon9.6 km