The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately 75-mile-long scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles, built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 an
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, found near Multnomah Falls on the Columbia River Scenic Highway
The principal designer, Samuel C. Lancaster, self-published a guide to the highway in 1915.
The view from Crown Point
The Multnomah Creek Bridge
Mitchell Point Tunnel
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The Mitchell Point Tunnel is a tunnel at the eastern end of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Oregon, United States, west of Hood River. The original tunnel existed from 1915 to 1966. A pedestria
Historic Columbia River Highway
…take it over a saddle, and the railroad occupied the only available land between the cliff and the river. Elliott solved the problem by building the Mitchell Point Tunnel—a windowed tunnel like on Switzerland's Axenstrasse—through the cliff, with a viaduct on the west approach. Construction began in March 1915, and the…
View of the Columbia River from inside the rebuilt tunnel in 2024
Looking up from the river
"The Most Costly Road in the World" "Mitchell's Point Cut on Columbia Expensive Piece of Highway Engineering" July, 1915 article (part 1)
"The Most Costly Road in the World" "Mitchell's Point Cut on Columbia Expensive Piece of Highway Engineering" July, 1915 article (part 2)