Original Spanish Hollow Alignment
Route 2 / US 30 / US 97
Original Alignment, Spanish Hollow (Yellow)
Google Earth Imagery Date: September 28, 2020v.2022.06.06.008_Historic-Highways
Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway
Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway
Kirk J. Poole, September 21, 2021
Kirk J. Poole, September 21, 2021
I've found an earlier alignment at Biggs. I just need to find any bridge abutments to verify it. Has anyone noticed it? It's well hidden and out of the way. It lays between the RR tracks and freeway, on both sides of Spanish Hollow.
Jim Westwood, September 21, 2021
Jim Westwood, September 21, 2021
Kirk it looks hopeful, but any abutments may have been buried by what looks like dike construction on Spanish Hollow. . . . or, more likely, buried under the fill for the freeway ramp.
Kirk J. Poole, September 26, 2021
Kirk J. Poole, September 26, 2021
We are just now finding the earlier routing to the north. 1,600 feet to the west, you can see more of that alignment. This gels with the older road being nearer to the freeway... With this find, we have both alignments all pieced together.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/posts/1039458376844350 (Accessed: June 6, 2022)
Old Roads at Biggs Junction
v.2020.07.06.007Google Earth Imagery Date: June 14, 2019
June 6, 2022
June 6, 2022
Surely, some of these old roads at Biggs were part of the original Route 2 alignment, but it will take a bit more work to get it all sorted out. CLICK HERE for photos.
Surely, some of these old roads at Biggs were part of the original Route 2 alignment, but it will take a bit more work to get it all sorted out. CLICK HERE for photos.