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A winter weather advisory was issued for Thursday, with between 4 and 7 inches of snow forecast above 4,000 feet, which could impact travel over Santiam Pass (Highway 22/20), Tombstone Pass ...
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 ...
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 ...
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:
Historical marker (Santiam Wagon Road) 16 63.64: Tombstone Pass summit, elevation 4,236 feet (1,291 m) 16 71.52: 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 ...
Willamette Pass is best known for having one of the steepest runs in the world, "RTS", which at its steepest point is 52 degrees. It hosted the 1993 Subaru U.S. Speed Skiing Championships, where a top speed of 111.56 mph (179.54 km/h) was achieved. [4] The area is a popular place for nearby schools to visit, with lessons and plenty of green runs.
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 ]
Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century. The road was named for frontiersman Stephen Meek, who was hired to lead the first wagon train along it in 1845. The journey was a particularly hard one, and ...