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It should not be confused with Old Blewett Pass, which is about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the current summit at the slightly lower elevation of 4,064 feet (1,239 m). [5] Swauk was renamed to Blewett Pass in the 1960s after the completion of a new highway alignment for US 97, with locals preferring to keep the old name. [ 6 ]
It then follows Swauk Creek as it ascends into the Wenatchee Mountains (part of the Cascade Range), passing several trailheads, campgrounds, and the former townsite of Liberty. [3] [22] The highway turns east to reach Blewett Pass, its highest point at 4,102 feet (1,250 m) above sea level, and crosses into Chelan County. [14]
The Swauk, Roslyn, Chumstick, and Manastash Formations (SW and MA) are on the east side of the Cascade Range and south of Mount Stuart (in the vicinity of Roslyn, Washington); the offset between these and the Chuckanut/Huntingdon is evidence of large-scale (about 110 km [3]) strike-slip motion on the Straight Creek Fault, starting at 48 Ma.
Abra de Porculla, Peru (connects between Olmos and Marañón) — 2,137 metres (7,011 ft), lowest pass in the Andes Ticlio , Peru — 4,818 metres (15,807 ft) Paso Chungará , Chile – Bolivia (on road 11 and 4, connects between Arica and La Paz ) — 4,680 metres (15,350 ft)
Crystalline gold specimen from Liberty (detail), overall size 3.6 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm. Liberty is a ghost town in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. [2] Following the discovery of gold in Swauk creek in 1873, Liberty was one of several gold-mining camps that sprang up.
Leavenworth is located on U.S. Route 2, which continues west across Stevens Pass to Snohomish County and east towards Wenatchee. [59] The highway has turn lanes through most of the city and ranges from two to four lanes wide; [ 60 ] [ 61 ] it is highly congested during seasonal events, [ 61 ] which has sometimes required law enforcement to ...
A remarkably short and low divide, Barlow Pass, separates the South Fork Sauk River from Palmer Creek, a headwater tributary of the South Fork Stillaguamish River. The unusual geography, orientation, and size of these rivers and their valleys suggests that during the Pleistocene era the Sauk River flowed west through Barlow Pass into what it ...
McClellan Pass Highway, Auburn to Yakima (including SR 1 and part of SR 5) Cayuse Pass to Mount Rainier; Chinook Pass to Mount Rainier; National Park Highway, Tacoma to Elbe, then to Mount Rainier near Ashford and Holman (including parts of SR 5 and SR 18) Olympic Highway, Olympia to Olympia (including SR 9 and SR 14) Secondary roads that remained: