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McKenzie Pass Scenic Highway 242 won’t be accessible by car for much longer.
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.
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]
Mckenzie Pass Highway 242 is closed in winter by this gate. In the past, people frequently parked at the gate and headed up the highway for recreation. Now ODOT is asking people not to go onto the ...
Originally, the highway was routed over McKenzie Pass, a high mountainous route that frequently was closed in winter due to poor road conditions. In 1962, the Clear Lake Cutoff was constructed between Clear Lake and Belknap Springs, connecting the McKenzie Highway to the Santiam Highway to the north. US 126 was re-routed over the cutoff and ran ...
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 from November to July each year. [2] [3] It is at times accessible to cyclists when the road is closed to vehicles. [4]
OR 126 west (McKenzie Highway) – Springfield, Eugene: Western end of Route 126 concurrency 16 74.90: OR 22 west – Detroit, Salem: Linn–Jefferson county line 16 80.77: Santiam Pass summit, elevation 4,817 feet (1,468 m) Jefferson 16 84.57: Viewpoint (Mount Washington) Deschutes 16 99.53: Historical marker (Santiam Pass Road) Sisters: 16 100.12
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.