coulee

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There are multiple ways to access this area; the description below begins in the Northwest corner of the coulee and is accessible to hikers of all ages and abilities.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2017

Figure 15.15 A slump along the banks of a small coulee near Lethbridge, Alberta.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The toe of the slump is being eroded by the seasonal stream that created the coulee.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

But things are also shifting into the modern era, as the coulee region claws out of the Depression and makes way for hydroelectric dams and rattling trucks.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2012

Every type and variety of humanity seemed to have made it to the coulee that summer, and the most colorful of them had settled in Shack Town.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown