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600 Cotlets Way, Cashmere, Washington

This museum and pioneer village traces life as it has been lived in this area for more than 9,000 years.

Touring the museum, one marvels at the ingenuity of the Native Americans. Visitors learn, for example, that 5,000 years ago they practiced a form of brain surgery using fermented herbs similar to penicillin. No less impressive are the tiny beads carefully drilled with primitive stone tools, the basketry, and the fine leather and feather work.

Specimens from one of the world's most spectacularly varied fossil forests can be seen here on a 7,470-acre site that encompasses prehistoric swamp and lake beds repeatedly inundated by lava. Felled trees from the dense forests of the Miocene Epochnot just the ginkgo for which the park is named, but some 200 other specieswere preserved beneath the solidified basalt, gradually turning to brilliantly colored stone as mineral deposits replaced their cell structure. Ice Age erosion brought them to light again.

Length: About 330 miles, plus side trips.

When to go: Popular year-round, but best in summer.

Words to the wise: Be alert for sudden changes in weather.

Nearby attractions: Resurrection Pass Trail, Hope. Kenai Historical Museum, Kenai. Small boat harbors, Seward and Homer.

Further information: Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council, 10819 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 103-D, Kenai, Alaska 99611; tel. 800-535-3624, www.kenai peninsula.org.

With Lake Huron lapping endlessly at the shores of Michigan's east coast, a delicate give-and-take forever unfurls in the land where the countryside meets the lakeside.