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On May 11, 1792, a private American ship, Columbia Rediviva, under Captain Robert Gray from Boston became the first non-indigenous vessel to enter the river. Later in 1792, William Robert Broughton of the British Royal Navy commanding HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition , navigated past the Oregon Coast Range and 100 miles (160 km ...
Castlegar, British Columbia to Robson, British Columbia: Castlegar-Robson Bridge: Broadwater Road Keenleyside Dam: 780.0 North of Castlegar, British Columbia: Needles Cable Ferry: Highway 6: Needles, British Columbia to Fauquier, British Columbia: Arrow Park Ferry: West Arrow Park to East Arrow Park: Upper Arrow Lake Ferry: Highway 23: Galena ...
1910 postcard showing the North Bank Bridge over the Columbia River. Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6 or BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6, [3] also known as the Columbia River Railroad Bridge, [4] is through truss railway bridge across the Columbia River, between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, owned and operated by BNSF Railway. [3]
The Interstate Bridge (also Columbia River Interstate Bridge, I-5 Bridge, Portland-Vancouver Interstate Bridge, Vancouver-Portland Bridge) is a pair of nearly identical steel vertical-lift, Parker through-truss bridges that carry Interstate 5 traffic over the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon in the United States.
The main span, near the Washington side, is 600 ft (183 m) long with 144 ft (44 m) of vertical clearance at low river levels. The bridge was named for Glenn Jackson, the chairman of the Oregon State Highway Commission and later the Oregon Economic Development Commission. [8] The average weekday traffic during 2019 was 166,152 vehicles. [2]
The North Portland Harbor is an Oregon waterway or channel in Multnomah County, specifically in Portland.An anabranch, about 5 miles (8 km) long, of the Columbia River, it separates Hayden and Tomahawk islands from the mainland.
A tanker truck overturned in Northeast Oregon on Friday and spilled over 100,000 live salmon — most of which landed in a nearby creek and lived to swim another day, officials said.
Although the bridge reaches into the state of Washington, it is maintained by the Oregon Department of Transportation. The average daily traffic on the bridge (US 197) is nearly 8,400. [ 1 ] US 197 connects Washington State Route 14 , a few miles to the north of the bridge, with Interstate 84 and US 30 , both just south of the bridge, and with ...