Tanner Creek to Tooth Rock

Samuel C. Lancaster, The Columbia River Highway In Multnomah County

From Tanner Creek at Bonneville, to Eagle Creek, distance 1.6 miles, the road ascends gradually for slightly more than a mile, through wooded hills, suddenly coming out on a rock point, overlooking the Columbia River at an elevation of 240 feet.

This is the divide. The road passes around the end of the mountain, which untold centuries ago was broken off by some fearful convulsion of nature. The Indians have a legend of a natural bridge spanning the Columbia at this point.

May 9, 2020

Most of the old highway has been destroyed through this stretch, though there is an intriguing path, running into a grade through the trees [below], visible in the clearing to the east of Mona's Hill. I've long suspected that there might be some old pavement over there, but I don't want to get tangled up with Homeland Security if I go trooping over there on my own without someone from ORPD. That clearing there is probably where Samuel C. Lancaster's Camp Get-A-Way was, so I do lean towards old Route 2 just being under the freeway now.

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