Orondo is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, set on the east bank of the Columbia River where the waterway widens into Lake Entiat, north of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. It sits along U.S. Highway 2/97, the main route through central Washington, in the heart of the state's orchard country. The community was established as an orchard and ranch site in 1928, when the Auvil brothers began farming the area; a peach variety known as the Daroga peach was developed there. In the late 1930s, an influx of families fleeing the Dust Bowl arrived to work in the local orchards, adding to the area's agricultural workforce. For decades, steam ferries carried traffic across the Columbia at Orondo, a role that ended when the Rocky Reach Dam was built in 1958 and the reservoir that became Lake Entiat rose to consume many acres of the community's riverside land. Today Orondo is home to roughly 500 residents and has no traditional downtown, functioning instead as a rural, orchard-centered community. The Orondo School District serves students through eighth grade, after which they attend high school in the East Wenatchee area. Orondo River Park, established in 1972 and operated as a state park, provides riverfront access for residents and visitors. Orondo's setting places it within one of the most productive tree-fruit regions in the country. The Wenatchee valley's orchards stretch for miles along both banks of the Columbia, and Orondo shares in that agricultural economy while remaining far quieter than the cities across the river. Its relationship to the river changed with the dam, but its identity has stayed tied to the land. For homebuyers, Orondo offers a quiet agricultural lifestyle along the Columbia, with orchards, open benchland, and lake recreation just upriver from the Wenatchee valley's services and employment.