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The spring runoff brings class IV and V rapids. Several commercial outfitters offer guided river trips. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve contains numerous trails for hiking and mountain biking, as well as over 1400 established rock climbs. [20] The New River is spanned near Fayetteville, West Virginia, by the New River Gorge Bridge ...
Early map of the Columbia River Highway, from Good Roads magazine, 1916 National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, found near Multnomah Falls on the Columbia River Scenic Highway. The Columbia River Gorge is the lowest crossing of the Cascade Mountains, carved by the Columbia River during the Cascades' uplift. [5]
Deep Water–Falls View: 1931 [22] Deepwater–Cotton Hill Bridge CR 13 Kanawha Falls: 1928 [20] Closed in 2018 due to structural damage with no plans to repair [23] [24] [25] Kanawha River becomes New River: CSX Gauley Subdivision: WV 16 (Beckwith Road) Beckwith–Chimney Corner: 1999 [20
The Kettle Falls Bridges is the collective name for a pair of steel cantilever bridges carrying State Route 20/U.S. Route 395 and the Kettle Falls International Railway across the Columbia River at Kettle Falls, Washington. The south bridge carries motor vehicle traffic while the similar northern span is used for rail.
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SR 14 at its interchange with I-205, built in the 1970s. The first highway that traveled through the Columbia River Gorge was surveyed in 1905 at a cost of $15,000 (equivalent to $508,667 in 2025 [27]) by the state of Washington as a wagon road connecting Washougal in Clark County to Lyle in Klickitat County that was designated as secondary State Road 8. [28]
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The bridge is named after The Beebe Orchard Company which built the first bridge, a reinforced concrete tower suspension bridge, [4] in 1919, over the Columbia River at Chelan Falls to carry irrigation water in two 12-inch water flumes [5] from springs on the west side to their orchards on the east side of the river. The Beebe Bridge was the ...