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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 ...
Wenatchee Avenue crosses the Wenatchee River into Sunnyslope and becomes a freeway, intersecting Penny Road and Easy Street in an incomplete diamond interchange before ending at an interchange with US 2 and US 97. [11] [12] The Senator George Sellar Bridge is the busiest section of SR 285, being used by a daily average of 52,000 vehicles in ...
State Route 207 (SR 207) is a 4.38-mile-long (7.05 km) state highway serving Wenatchee National Forest and Lake Wenatchee State Park in Chelan County, located within the U.S. state of Washington. 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 ...
WSDOT was founded as the Washington State Highway Board and the Washington State Highways Department on March 13, 1905, when then-governor Albert Mead signed a bill that allocated $110,000 to fund new roads that linked the state. The State Highway Board was managed by State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Highway Commissioner Joseph M. Snow and ...
The U.S. state of Washington has over 7,000 miles (11,000 km) of state highways maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). [1] The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR).
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).
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The state of Washington began maintaining sections of what would become US 2 with the extension of State Road 7 in 1909, from Peshastin to Spokane on the Sunset Highway and later State Road 2. In addition to State Road 2, State Road 23 was created in 1915, traveling north from Spokane to Newport, and was renumbered to State Road 6 in 1923.