Starvation Creek to Viento

Route 2 / HCRH State Trail

Restored: 2001

HCRH State Trail between Starvation Creek and VientoGoogle Earth Imagery Date: July 18, 2010

This section of the old highway as been restored as a part of the HCRH State Trail.

HCRH State Trail Eastbound from Starvation CreekStarvation Creek State Park. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Oregon. November 23, 2013

ODOT, HCRH Completed Projects

Starvation Creek to Viento Completed in 2001

The Starvation Creek to Viento project provides almost a mile of HCRH State Trail connecting two State Parks and provides wheel-chair accessible access to a waterfall on Starvation Creek and a nearby picnic area. Work included construction of a fence to keep rocks off the trail, restoration of historic two-rail wooden guardrail, pavement and a vegetated retaining wall.

Viento

This project extended the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail between Starvation Creek and Viento State Parks. Construction was completed in 2009 and trail visitors can now travel from Starvation Creek to Viento State Park solely on the Historic Highway State Trail.

ODOT. HCRH Completed Projectshttp://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/HCRH/Pages/completedprojects.aspx

HCRH State Trail - Snag Above the TrailHCRH State Trail - Starvation Creek to Viento. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Oregon . April 17, 2013

Blossom on Historic Columbia River Highway TrailHistoric Coulmbia River Highway Trail. Near Starvation Creek. Oregon. April 17, 2013

"Here are three of about the same location – the berm was there in 1987. First rockfall mitigation project put in the gabion wall. The HCRH State Trail project changed to the brugg fence."

Jeanette Kloos, June 18,2020

Starvation Creek to VientoPhoto courtesy Jeanette Kloos

It took awhile to figure out where this next photo was shot from. I am now certain that this is Lindsey Lake in the foreground, though the whole architecture of the river through here has changed since this photo was shot, and the old, natural pond/slough is now just a small, man-made lagoon created by the railroad tracks.

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Wind Mountain and sunset skiesPhoto by Eddy

The photo below is shot from the approximate location of the Photo Post Card by Eddy (circa. 1920)...

"Columbia River, Shellrock Mountain, Wind Mountain, from Columbia River Highway, Oregon, ca.1920: Penny Postcard, ca.1920, 'Columbia River and Wind Mountain, Washington, from Columbia River Highway, Oregon.' Shellrock Mountain, Oregon can be seen on the left, and Wind Mountain, Washington is on the right. Image Copyright A.M. Prentiss. In the private collection of Lyn Topinka."

http://columbiariverimages.com/PennyPostcards/index.html

Near the location of the Photo Post Card by Eddy (circa. 1920)