Get in
By Car
Pullman accessed by US 195, and SR 270.
By Bus
Trailways runs regular bus routes from Spokane.
By Plane
Pullman is served by the Pullman-Moscow Regional airport.
Get around
Since there is not much to the downtown area, transportation is a must. Public transportation is available from Pullman Transit, though it is often geared towards the university. Pullman also has multiple bike trails for summer travel around the town.
See
Being the home of a major state university, there are many WSU centric activities available
Washington State University
WSU is trying to collect many of the sights around campus in one website titled Around WSU. These are a selection (and maybe a few that have been forgotten)
Non WSU
Eat
Pullman has a listing of restaurants in the area. However, here is a small selection:
Get out
Pullman is 8 miles away from Moscow, Idaho, which has many attractions worth checking out.
Pullman is located at (46.732614, -117.171790). Elevation 2552 ft or 778 m above sea level.
Pullman is a city in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 24,675 at the 2000 census.
The main campus of Washington State University is located in Pullman.
History
The city of Pullman was incorporated in 1886 with a population of 250 people. It was originally named Three Forks, after the three small rivers that converge there: Missouri Flat Creek, Dry Fork, and the South Fork of the Palouse River. The city was later renamed after railroad car maker George Pullman.
In 1961, Pullman became a non-chartered code city under the Mayor-Council form of government. The city has an elected mayor with an elected seven-member council and an appointed administrative officer, the city supervisor. The current mayor is Glenn A. Johnson who doubles as a professor at WSU's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication and is also the long-time WSU Cougars Football announcer in Martin Stadium and Basketball announcer at Beasley Coliseum.
Formation
The early history of Pullman is disputed.
One account holds that in September of 1877, Daniel G. McKenzie and family arrived from Kansas and settled in the area of the Palouse prairie called Three Forks. Several other families, including the Bolin Farr family, arrived a short time later, and set up their homesteads next to the McKenzies.
Alternatively, a man named Bolin Farr, during an 1875 search for a homestead site, camped beside a meadow where three creeks joined. He later claimed the area as a homestead, and called it Three Forks Ranch. By this account, Farr's first neighbors came two years later,...
