Duvall
From Big Rock Road on the south to the big curve north out of town, Duvall's Main Street stretches for nearly two miles along the Snoqualmie River and state Route 203.
The one-time farming community (pronounced DOO-vahl, not du-VAHL) offers an eclectic array of old and new. There remains an awkward balance between yesterday and today.
A city design commission is keeping old Main Street looking mostly like old Main Street has always looked. But now there is a Safeway in town to compete with Cherry Valley Grocery. And high on the Duvall Plateau to the east, new cul-de-sacs suggest an Anywhere, U.S.A., with three-car garages and multihipped roofs.
Duvall's population jumped from 2,770 in 1990 to more than 4,860 a decade later, and traffic along Main Street sometimes shows it, as SUVs duel for space with double-load dump trucks on their way through town.