Hunt Creek

West Fragment

Route 2

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Route 2 at Clifton RoadColumbia River Highway. Oregon. March 15, 2014

Oregon State Archives - A 1940 Journey Across Oregon

US 30 twists down to HUNT CREEK, 80.7 m. [West of Portland] then climbs a spur from which a desolate waste of logged over land extends in all directions. A high, sharply etched mountain (L), with sides bare of vegetation, shows the results of unrestricted timber cutting.

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/pages/exhibits/across/rainier.html

"One of the many sections of our state highways made desolate by logging operations. On Hunt Creek about twenty miles east of Astoria. Paved in 1920."

Hunt Creek Ravine, c. 1920Oregon State Highway Commission - 4th Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1918 to November 30th, 1920http://digital.lib.pdx.edu/oscdl/files/odot/pdx005t0003.pdf

This shot is taken from approximately the same location as the c. 1920 photo. No longer desolate...

One of the many sections of our state highways made desolate by logging operations. On Hunt Creek about twenty miles east of Astoria. Paved in 1920. (2015)Hunt Creek Fragment, CRH. Clatsop County, Oregon. May 9, 2015.Copyright © 2015 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved

At this post, an old spur road heads down to the creek and the old bridge site. This spur seems to have been used as an access road for awhile since the CRH was abandoned here.

Past this post, the old CRH grade becomes nearly impassable, at least in May...

The original embankment fill for Route 2 was impressive here, but the massive embankment fill for modern US 30 looms over everything here, dwarfing the remnants of the old highway. The original bridge, a wooden trestle bridge, would have been tall and impressive.

Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway

Posted by Kirk J. Poole on March 13, 2020: "Probably part of the 1952-1953 rebuild of the road, which is also when the Whidby Loops were cut off."

Hunt Creek Embankments (v007)Google Earth Imagery Date: March 30, 2016

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