Crown Point

Post Card (Reproduction): Crown Point, 1915Crown Point, 1915, Photo by Weister Published by Friends of the Vista House. From the collection of A. F. Litt
Lancaster's "King of Roads" Circles Crown PointClarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 106

Samuel C. Lancaster, "The Columbia River Highway In Multnomah County"

...at Crown Point, we get our first view of the upper Columbia after leaving Chanticleer. Here the road fits the top of a great rock like the hatband on your hat, and you traverse 225 degrees of a circle, on a radius of 110 feet, as you walk or ride around the very edge of this rock tower, 700 feet straight up in the air. A solid concrete railing four feet high and a seven-foot sidewalk and curb protect the outer edge. The total length of the railing and sidewalk is 560 feet.

The owners of the "Thor's Heights" property gave all the right-of-way to the county and almost an acre of ground on the top of the rock, which the road encircles, for a public park, to be the property of the City of Portland.


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Winter View of Vista HouseHistoric Columbia River Highway, Oregon. December 9, 2014
17. AERIAL VIEW OF CROWN POINT VIADUCT (HAER No. OR-36-C) AND CROWN POINT (HAER No. OR-36-D). SAME PHOTO AS HAER No. OR-36-C-1. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354668p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354668pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--17Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.printhttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/or0386.photos.354668p/resource/

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