Old Weigh Station
US 30 / I-84
Scale Remains from Old Weigh Station (2013)I-84. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Oregon. October 20, 2013Copyright © 2014 A. F. Litt , All Rights Reserved
"I have no idea when it closed — satellite imagery so far hasn’t been helpful — but it was still shown in the March 2006 Hwy #2 straightline chart between mileposts 49.28 and 49.56 eastbound. It was removed in the March 2010 straightline chart, but oddly enough the ramps were kept, simply shown as 'road's."
"I have no idea when it closed — satellite imagery so far hasn’t been helpful — but it was still shown in the March 2006 Hwy #2 straightline chart between mileposts 49.28 and 49.56 eastbound. It was removed in the March 2010 straightline chart, but oddly enough the ramps were kept, simply shown as 'road's."
Ledbetter, Jonathan. "'Weigh Station.' and Lang State Park HCRH Segments" Beaver State Blog. Accessed March 4, 2020. http://blog.beaverstateroads.net/2020/01/12/weigh-station-lang-park-hcrh-segments
I have no memory of this station being open, and I started driving through the gorge fairly frequently starting around 2004 (I lived in Seattle until 2002 and didn't have a car until 2004). Ledbetter points out that construction began on the new Port of Entry weigh station in Cascade Locks in "mid-August 1988", and I am assuming that it would have quickly replaced this station, if it was still open at the time.
Today this large turnout is used mostly by boondocking truckers (and as a parking area to access the abandoned Weigh Station Fragment of the CRH!).
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