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SR 285 begins its 5.04-mile-long (8.11 km) long route at a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR 28 west of the Wenatchee Valley Mall in East Wenatchee. [1] [3] The freeway crosses the Columbia River from Douglas County into Wenatchee and Chelan County on the Senator George Sellar Bridge, listed as a part of the National Register of Historic Places.
The 1923 legislature established a numbering system for state highways, designating the North Central Highway as State Road 7 and Chelan and Okanogan Highway as State Road 10. [24] [25] The Wenatchee–Quincy highway was fully completed in 1926, using $200,000 in state appropriations (equivalent to $2.76 million in 2023 dollars) [26] and ...
The highway travels north along Nason Creek from an intersection with U.S. Route 2 (US 2) at Coles Corner to Chiwawa Loop Road on the eastern shore of Lake Wenatchee. SR 207 was previously signed as part of Secondary State Highway 15C (SSH 15C) and SSH 15D until the 1964 highway renumbering , when SSH 15C was split between SR 207 and SR 209 .
The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR). It was created in 1964 to replace an earlier numbering scheme and ratified by the state legislature in 1970. The system's 196 highways are almost entirely paved, with the exception of a gravel section on SR 165.
A short section between US 2 and the Ohme Garden Road roundabout is designated as part of the National Highway System, a network of roads identified as important to the national economy, defense, and mobility. [13] [14] Link Transit operates daily bus service on the corridor, connecting Wenatchee to Entiat, Chelan, and Manson. [15]
The system spans 8.5% of the state's public road mileage, but carries over half of the traffic. [2] [3] All other public roads in the state are either inside incorporated places (cities or towns) or are maintained by the county. [4] The state highway symbol is a white silhouette of George Washington's head (whom the state is named after).
The first segment of what is now US 97 in Washington to be included in the state highway system was a road extending from Wenatchee to Twisp, designated in 1897. Since, four early highways formed the modern route of the roadway: State Road 8 , State Road 3 , State Road 2 and State Road 10 , all signed in 1923.
A combined state department of transportation was proposed in the mid-1960s and gained the support of Governor Dan Evans. [10] Charles Prahl, who resigned as head of the Department of Highways, criticized the Evans administration's proposal to create a transportation "superagency" and the prioritization of rapid transit in plans for the urban transportation system of Seattle. [11]