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7Then, drive about 13 miles south along WA-510 East to downtown Yelm for the Yelm Farmers Market, open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays. Shop 20 vendors with locally grown fruits and vegetables, plants for your garden, floral arrangements and handmade crafts. Just a few blocks away, find excellent brunch, lunch, gelato and baked-treat options at Masonry Caf%u00e9 Catering.Then, head almost 14 miles west along WA-507 to Tenino, a former quarry town with several early 20th century brick, stone and cement buildings forming a petite historic district. A 16-stop walking tour takes you past a historic bank, city hall, post office, Masonic lodge and other charming buildings now housing a variety of restaurants, antique stores and saloons. The tour also passes by the tiny Tenino Farmers Market, open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, where you might find berries and cherries and other locally grown produce, mead and wine and handmade gifts. Nearby, the Tenino Stone Carvers Guild%u2019s showroom opens its doors on Saturdays from 10a.m.-4 p.m. so you can watch carvers at work.Downtown Tenino%u2019s impressive city park features tall, modern kids%u2019 play climbing structures. It sits along the Chehalis Western Trail, a former railroad corridor now serving as a 22-mile paved multiuse path for walkers, runners and cyclists. Nearby, the 1914 Tenino Depot Museum contains town and tribal history, including a collection of children%u2019s toys from the 1900s through 2000s and the haunting origins of nearby Bucoda, a recreated antique doctor%u2019s office with authentic supplies and a one-room schoolhouse where you can still ring a 100-year-old school bell. Next door, leap into one of Washington%u2019s more unusual experiences %u2014 swimming what was once a working sandstone quarry in the late 1800s. The Quarry Swimming Pool is now a public (and very cold) outdoor pool, 35-feet deep. This summeronly pool is open through August and runs just $6 per person for non-Tenino residents. Just west of Tenino on Old Highway 99, pass prairieland to find the Tenino Agriculture Innovation Park, a newer venture still filling in retail spaces. You can currently visit an organic caf%u00e9 or pick up grass-fed, grass-finished beef at the Colvin Ranch Provisions storefront. Then, head north along Tilley Road SW for an afternoon tasting experience at Sandstone Distillery%u2019s barrel bistro tables, including a choice of a clear spirits flight or amber spirits flight, plus cocktail samples, light snacks, chocolates and a distillery tour. Many family farms dot the entire Thurston Bountiful Byway route. Nearby Rutledge Family Farm operates a farmstand and opens its sunflower fields for photos at its late-summer Sunflower Festival. Set your route-finding app to reach Lattin%u2019s Country Cider Mill & Farm, roughly 9 miles away. Walk the fir-shaded grounds and spy animals (including chickens, goats, bunnies and peacocks) in backyard pens. Visit the mill%u2019s store for the award-winning apple cider, or an apple cider doughnut or fritter. Or browse the freezer for freezer jam or handmade, unbaked pies made of regional berry favorites like wild blackberry, wild huckleberry, loganberry and marionberry.About four minutes north of Lattin%u2019s, you can buy a Styrofoam cooler for the Johnson%u2019s Smokehouse and Sausage Kitchen%u2019s wide selection of smoked landj%u00e4ger, pepperoni and jerky, marinated meats and grab-n-go meals such as gourmet flatbreads or smoked brisket mac %u2018n%u2019 cheese. Round out a picnic on-site with smoked cheeses, crackers and wine, or the deli offers casual meals for diners sitting on bar-height red chairs or lazing around outside under patio umbrellas. Catch live music on select summer afternoons.End your day in Olympia %u2014 if you make it in time, the Olympia Farmers Market presents one of the Northwest%u2019s best markets, featuring stalls piled high with produce. To make an overnight stay out of the road trip, reserve a room at Swantown Inn. Rutledge Family Farmoperates a farmstand and opens its sunflower fields for photos at its late-summer Sunflower Festival. (Experience Olympia & Beyond)Take a distillery tour at Sandstone Distillery. (Experience Olympia & Beyond).Lattin%u2019s Country Cider Mill & Farm serves award-winning apple cider, plus apple cider doughnuts and fritters. (Experience Olympia & Beyond)