Twin Tunnels to East Trailhead

Route 2

[110] "Guard Walls - Col River H Chicken Isl. Below" From Disc 1 of a series of CDs labelled "Glass Slide Collection", picked up at ODOT. Posted by Jonathan Ledbetter (http://blog.beaverstateroads.net) to Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway Facebook Group on February 12, 2020

Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway

Kirk J. Poole, February 12, 2020: Oooh! Non hand-fit stones. These ones are completely mortared. I wonder if this is from the 1920's, when later people and not the Italians put up the wall ???

Gary Randall, February 12, 2020: Chicken Charlie's Island.

Kirk J. Poole, February 12, 2020: Wish I had the $2.8 million they are asking for the island and the house! I can make out a couple buildings on the island. Today? just that one nice house, split-level, built in 1969.

Gary Randall, February 12, 2020: My aunt told me a story about a guy who lived on the island back in the old days. There was a flood on the Columbia River and a bunch of apple crates were floated downstream and some found their way onto the island. Not long after there was a fruit stand set up selling apples on the highway.

89. ROADWAY AND RUINS OF PARAPET RAILING, NEAR EAST END OF MOSIER TUNNELS, FACING EAST. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354740p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354740pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--89Repository: 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.354740p/resource/

90. ROADWAY AND RUINS OF PARAPET RAILING, NEAR EAST END OF MOSIER TUNNELS, FACING WEST. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354741p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354741pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--90Repository: 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.354741p/resource/

91. ROADWAY VIEW NEAR MOSIER TWIN TUNNELS. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354742p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354742pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--91Repository: 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.354742p/resource/

ODOT, HCRH Completed Projects

Oregon 35-to-Mosier Historic Roadway Features Restored

Construction is complete on this project to repair all the historic roadway features and pavement on the Historic Columbia River Highway between Hood River and Mosier. The work included repairing and rebuilding of the rock walls and guardrails. Due to lack of funds, the area between Oregon 35 and the West Trailhead will not receive a pavement overlay.

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

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

The state highway department abandoned this section in the early 1950s when the water-level route opened... With closure of this portion of the old road in the mid-1950s, the right-of-way in Wasco County to HMP 73.1, including the Mosier Twin Tunnels (HMP 72) reverted to surrounding private landowners.

Hadlow, Landmark Nomination, 9

In 1954, the OSHD abandoned the highway’s Mosier Twin Tunnel section, with the right-of-way reverting to adjacent landowners. From 1987 onward, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has reacquired ownership of this entire section of the CRH from Hood River to Mosier.