Lester was a small town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway (now the BNSF Railway). Lester is located along what is currently National Forest Development Road 54, on land owned by , a division of Tacoma Public Utilities. It is one of the few ghost towns in the U.S. state of Washington. Although most remaining freestanding buildings were demolished in 2017, numerous foundations from the settlement remain.