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A long-term plan adopted in 2006 proposed widening the East Wenatchee section of the highway to four lanes by 2025 to meet projected demand from a larger regional population. [46] The plan also included an extension of Eastmont Avenue to the US 2 and US 97 intersection, functioning as a bypass of East Wenatchee. [46]
State Route 281 (SR 281) is a short state highway in Grant County, Washington. It travels north–south for 10.5 miles (16.9 km), connecting Interstate 90 (I-90) in George to SR 28 in Quincy. The highway is a major freight corridor and also has a short spur route near George that connects it to SR 283.
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 bridge opened East Wenatchee and the rest of Douglas County to apple orchard development. Still standing today, the bridge is a 1,060-foot (320 m) pin-connected steel cantilever bridge and cost $177,000 to build. It once carried the Sunset Highway (State Highway 2) across the river.
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Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 42,938. [1] The county seat is Waterville, [2] while its largest settlement is East Wenatchee. The county was created out of Lincoln County on November 28, 1883 [3] and is named for American statesman Stephen A. Douglas.
Coulee Dam is a town in Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan counties in the state of Washington. The Douglas County portion of Coulee Dam is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,211 as of the 2020 census. [2]
The Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is a monument in (present-day) East Wenatchee, Washington, dedicated to Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., the two men who made the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. They departed from Misawa, Japan, on October 4, 1931, and landed near this site 41 hours later. [2]