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By the 1850s, Emigrant Pass, slightly south of OR 58's crossing at Willamette Pass, was being used by emigrants to the Oregon Territory as a way over the Cascades.In October 1853, a party of 1,500 was almost stranded at the pass, but was saved from a Donner Party-style tragedy by nearby settlers who had begun to improve the route up the Middle Fork Willamette River earlier that year as a ...
Willamette Pass Tunnel in 1940. Willamette Pass (5,128 ft or 1,563 m) is a mountain pass crossing the crest of the Cascade Range in Oregon, United States. It is less commonly known as Willamette Summit. [1] [2] The pass is traversed by Oregon Route 58 and by Union Pacific's (ex-Southern Pacific) Cascade Subdivision, which provides rail access ...
The Pacific Crest Trail traverses left and right across the pass; Mount Hood's northwest face is visible in the background. Cyclists cross and descend the McKenzie Pass on Oregon Route 242 There are several words in use for a mountain pass in Oregon; the usage for each is:
Bridge over the Willamette River in Corvallis, Oregon. The Oregon section of US 20 consists of the following highways numbered using ODOT's internal numbering system (see Oregon highways and routes), from west to east: The Corvallis-Newport Highway No. 33; Part of the Corvallis-Lebanon Highway No. 210; The Albany-Corvallis Highway No. 31;
Interstate 5 is the second-longest freeway in Oregon, at 308 miles (496 km), and is the only Interstate to traverse the state from north to south. [4] The highway connects several of the state's largest metropolitan areas, which lie in the Rogue and Willamette valleys, [5] and passes through counties with approximately 81 percent of Oregon's population. [6]
Willamette Pass Resort is a ski area in the western United States, located at Willamette Pass in west central Oregon, in Klamath and Lane counties. In the Cascade Range between Oakridge and La Pine and accessed by Highway 58, it operates on federal land under special use permit on the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests.
Emigrant Pass is a gap in the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] It is about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Summit Lake on the border between Klamath and Lane counties. [ 2 ] Originally called Willamette Pass , it lay along a primitive road that paralleled the Middle Fork Willamette River to near the crest. [ 2 ]
Oregon Route 6 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oregon that runs between the city of Tillamook on the Oregon Coast, to the Willamette Valley, near Banks.OR 6 traverses the Wilson River Highway No. 37 of the Oregon state highway system, [2] named after the river paralleling the highway's western segment.