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The Hood River, formerly known as Dog River, is a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon, United States.Approximately 25 miles (40 km) long from its mouth to its farthest headwaters on the East Fork, the river descends from wilderness areas in the Cascade Range on Mount Hood and flows through the agricultural Hood River Valley to join the Columbia River in the Columbia River Gorge.
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April 13, 1992 (Mount Hood National Forest [a: Wamic to Rhododendron: Beginning with its construction by Sam Barlow in 1846, this toll road provided the first overland connection for wagons between The Dalles and Oregon City over Mount Hood, and offered a majority of Oregon Trail emigrants an alternative to the hazardous raft passage down the Columbia River from The Dalles to Fort Vancouver.
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Oregon's 2nd congressional district is the largest of Oregon's six districts, and is the seventh largest district in the nation.It is the second-largest congressional district in the nation that does not cover an entire state, and has been represented by Republican Cliff Bentz of Ontario since 2021.
It is 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the neighboring community of Mount Hood and 16 miles (26 km) south of Hood River, the county seat. Oregon Route 281 is the main road through the community. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Parkdale CDP has a total area of 0.62 square miles (1.6 km 2 ), all of it land.
OR 281 is known as the Hood River Highway No. 281 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 19.01 miles (30.59 km) long and runs north–south, entirely within Hood River County . OR 281 was established in 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned.