Field At Walker Canyon – Eagle Creek Area

When I was a kid growing up here in Leavenworth it was sometimes hard to find things to do. We had television but that was mostly just an aggravating event since we only received three channels, all by antenna and all snowy at best. On warm summer days my five siblings and I lived for the time when my dad came home from work and we got to go to the river for a swim. Sometimes after swimming we’d even stop by the creamery and get a soft ice cream cone. I think the only flavor they had was vanilla. Maybe not. Maybe it was just easier for my dad to order and there’d be fewer fights if everybody got vanilla. No matter, that was quite a treat.

Once in a while we’d take our ice cream cones for a drive which always seemed to end up by traveling up Eagle Creek Road which is about a mile north of town off Chumstick Highway. I liked traveling up that road because it was sort of exciting. The road was twisting and had some abrupt hills which gave the sensation of weightlessness as we crested them and zoomed down the other side. The best part about going up Eagle Creek Road though was the field near Walker Canyon. It was a huge alfalfa field and was always filled with a dense crop of emerald green alfalfa. Sometimes it would have been freshly mowed and the aroma was sweet, like new mown lawn, but to the tenth power. Sometimes it was in tidy wind rows, drying in preparation for baling. Sometimes the field was dotted with hundreds of bales waiting to be bucked and hauled to the barn. That field was always in some state of flux but always beautiful and interesting.

Most exciting of all though was the real probability of seeing a herd of deer enjoying the tender green alfalfa chutes. Sometimes there would be twenty or thirty of them delicately nibbling away. Sometimes there would only be a few. The bucks might still have velvety horns; the fawns might still be covered in white spots. Occasionally we would see coyotes hunting mice there or maybe they were hunting rabbits who had been lured to the aroma of the crop. That field was a part of the cycle of life for those creatures great and small, and of course for the farmer who tended it. That farmer who made hay there for so many years is gone now. His family is spread far and wide and the field is no longer farmed.

You could farm it though. Maybe you don’t need the whole thing. Maybe you just need five acres to build a home on, to let your horses graze. You could buy five acres and enjoy the amazing mountain view and the soothing sound of Eagle Creek which flows through the property year round. The property has direct access to Walker Canyon Road, a U.S Forest Service road which takes you deep into the wooded back country. From your home you could enjoy snowmobiling, mountain biking, horseback riding, you name it.

If you think you might enjoy living on the perfect property, in the perfect setting, just give us a call. We’ll take you there and you can see for yourself what makes the field at Walker Canyon so special. – Mike West