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Rufus Frontage Road

Route 2 / US 30

Rufus Frontage Roadv.2020.07.10.007Google Earth Imagery Date: June 14, 2020

Steve Hart, Upper Columbia River Highway Survey

Rufus Fragment (Improved US 30)

1300 feet, 117.2, east end of Frontage Road

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Rufus Fragment, Frontage Road, EastboundMarch 28, 2014Photo by A. F. Litt

Rufus Fragment, Frontage Road, WestboundMarch 28, 2014Photo by A. F. Litt

End of Frontage Road, WestboundPhoto by Kirk J. PoolePosted to Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway on June 9, 2020Permalink: https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/permalink/754199222036935/

Kirk J. Poole, July 9, 2020

The Rufus barriers are passable. They've moved one of the jersey barriers 90-deg. and you can drive as far as we used to.

I have to go back and explore a brand new theory. To either discover a new roadway or debunk it at Rufus...

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Blocked East End of Frontage RoadApril 20, 2015Photo by A. F. Litt

March 28, 2014

The east end of the drivable section looks a bit like Mad Max out there with some permanent campers... I don't know how friendly they are, so be warned! (Don't get me wrong, they may be very friendly, I just do not know.)

"If I'm understanding things correctly, this is where the 1950s highway splits from the 1920s highway."

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Kirk J. Poole, July 16, 2020

A very familiar scene to me this Spring and early-Summer! Again, I believe it's the earliest road that veers right and the 'Improved Road' veering off to the left...presumably during the final upgrades to 4-lane status.

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"If the 50s highway is on the left, it ends quite soon after this point. It was destroyed when the freeway was built."

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Rufus Frontage Road Splitv.2020.07.18.007Google Earth Imagery Date: June 14, 2019

"The right fork continues into a patch of trees."

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"It ends soon too, like the other fork absorbed by the freeway."

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Kirk J. Poole, July 16, 2020

And there it is! The width of pavement here makes me re-think, 'was this 1926 or 1952??' I'll pack a measuring tape too, next trip.

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July 18, 2020

Considering the fragment on the next page, I am sticking with 1952 in the above photo...

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