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McKenzie Pass Scenic Highway 242 won’t be accessible by car for much longer.
Oregon Route 242, known as a portion of the McKenzie Highway, is an Oregon state highway that runs from Belknap Springs, Oregon through McKenzie Pass in the Oregon Cascades, to Sisters, Oregon, in the United States. The McKenzie Highway was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February, 2011. [4]
Dee Wright Observatory is located in the Willamette National Forest 15 miles (24 km) west of Sisters, Oregon on Route 242. [1] The highway is part of the McKenzie-Santiam Pass Scenic Byway. McKenzie Pass is 5,325 feet (1,623 m) above sea level, and winter snow and the narrow road surface requires McKenzie Pass to be closed to motor vehicles ...
The scenic highway typically closes to cars between late fall and June but has been used by generations to ski, snowmobile and hike in the offseason. 'Complete shock': ODOT says McKenzie Pass ...
McKenzie Pass, elevation 5,325 feet (1,623 m), [1] is a mountain pass in the Cascade Range in central Oregon in the United States. [2] It is located at the border of Linn and Deschutes counties, [2] approximately 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Bend, [3] between the Three Sisters to the south and Mount Washington to the north. Oregon Route 242 ...
The Mount Jefferson Snowmobile Club has for decades provided access to McKenzie Pass Highway 242. Now, their ability to do that is in question. Oregon snowmobile group fights to access, groom ...
The trek begins at the snow gate on McKenzie Pass Highway 242 east of McKenzie Bridge. It begins at 2,100 feet, which may or may not have snow, then travels 2.6 miles and 1,000 feet to the Proxy ...
In the U.S. state of Oregon, there are two systems for categorizing roads in the state highway system: named state highways and numbered state routes.Named highways, such as the Pacific Highway No. 1 or the North Umpqua Highway East No. 138, are primarily used internally by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) whereas numbered routes, such as Interstate 5 (I-5), U.S. Highway 20 (US ...