Whiskey Dick Mountain is located 15 miles (24.1 km) east of Ellensburg

Ellensburg, Washington

Ellensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The population was 18,174 at the 2010 census. The population was 18,250 at 2011 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. Ellensburg is located just east of the Cascade Range on I-90 and is known as the...

, in Washington state. It is in in the, 28549 acres (11,553.4 ha), Whiskey Dick Unit of the L.T. Murray Wildlife Area. It is the highest point on windy ridge alone which the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility

Wild Horse Wind Farm

The Wild Horse Wind Farm is a 229-megawatt wind farm that generates energy for Puget Sound Energy that consists of one hundred twenty-seven 1.8-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines on a site in Kittitas County, Washington, east of Ellensburg, Washington....

 is sited. The farm, with 149 wind turbine

Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device may be called a wind generator or wind charger. If the mechanical energy is used to drive machinery, such as for grinding grain or...

s, is owned by Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy is Washington state's oldest local energy utility providing electrical power and natural gas in the Puget Sound region of the northwest United States...

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Access to land owned or leased by the power company is open to the public for recreational use by permit only. The area, characterized by sagebrush steppe

Sagebrush steppe

The sagebrush steppe is a type of shrub-steppe, which is a dry-xeric environment and plant community found in the Western United States and western Canada...

and rocky outcroppings, provides opportunities for hiking and hunting.