The Crown Jewel of the Historic Columbia River Highway Crown Point and Vista House History – If there is one place that captures the spirit of the Historic Columbia River Highway, it is Crown Point. Long before guardrails and parking lots, long before social media and tour buses, this basalt promontory rising 733 feet above … Continue reading Crown Point and Vista House History: Historic Columbia River Highway
From 1884 until World War II the ORNCo Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company operated a train stop at Multnomah Falls. It was around this time that the “bow string truss” bridge across Multnomah Creek was built.
Photos of a Harley on the Columbia River Highway Here’s a series of photos from 1927, ten years after the opening of the Historic Highway, showing a young man and his Harley Davidson motorcycle. It must have been in the Winter as there seems to be snow and rock fall in the photos. One of … Continue reading A Harley on the Columbia River Highway
It was 1915 and a lot was going on just east of Troutdale Oregon in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. Planning was taking place for the construction of the now Historic Columbia River Highway.
Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson, a revered leader of the Wyam people, served as the salmon chief of Celilo Village for over eight decades. Born along the Columbia River in the mid-19th century, Thompson dedicated his life to preserving Indigenous fishing rights and cultural traditions at Celilo Falls—a vital fishing and trading hub for Native communities for thousands of years.
