Eagle Creek to Cascade Locks

Page Index

• Route 2: Eagle Creek to Bonneville Overlook
• Bonneville Overlook
• Route 2: Lost Fragment - Ruckel South
• State Trail: Eagle Creek to Ruckel Creek
• Route 2: Ruckel Creek
• Sheridan State Scenic Corridor
• Route 2: Lost Fragment - Ruckel North
• State Trail: Detour Grade
• Route 2 / State Trail: I-84 Tunnel to Cascade Locks

I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to organize this section because the old highway and the state trail diverge paths frequently through here.

For the most part, for clarity, I prefer to have the original route and the newer routes, such as the state trail, to keep to themselves on their own pages.

I've followed this convention with the pages covering this section of the highway, for now, for better or worse...

Robert W. Hadlow, Columbia River Highway Historic District, National Historic Landmark Nomination

In 1999, the FHWA’s Western Federal Lands Highway Division completed rehabilitation of the 2.4-mile Eagle Creek to Cascade Locks section (HMP 42.8 to 45) of the CRH for non-motorized use. Within a quarter mile east of the Eagle Creek Campground, the highway’s alignment headed south, away from the river. At HMP 43.6, it crosses Ruckel Creek on a masonry-walled 10-foot slab span constructed in 1917.

A short section east of Ruckel Creek Bridge, the highway takes an 800-foot detour route dating from 1937. It rejoins the original alignment below the south shoulder of present-day Interstate 84. As part of the 1999 FHWA project, a pedestrian tunnel was constructed under the Interstate 84 alignment. North of the four-lane highway, the HCRH State Trail follows a new alignment eastward for 2,000 feet before continuing on the original CRH roadbed to the Bridge of the Gods, in Cascade Locks, at HMP 45.8.

Original HCRH Alignment

Below, Feb 1956 is printed on the map, but the site says 1931.

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