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Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.
The hotel opened in 1978 as the DoubleTree Hotel Jantzen Beach. It was sold to Red Lion in the late 1990s. [citation needed] Howard Dietrich Jr. owned the hotel, as of 2012. [3] The hotel was sold to IHG in early 2022 and soon became the Holiday Inn Portland-Columbia Riverfront. [4]
The Cascade Locks and Canal was a navigation project on the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, completed in 1896. It allowed the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids , and thereby opened a passage from the lower parts of the river as far as The Dalles .
The debris slid into the Columbia Gorge close to modern-day Cascade Locks, Oregon, blocking the Columbia River with a natural dam approximately 200 feet (61 m) high and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) long. The impounded river formed a lake and drowned a forest of trees for about 35 miles (56 km).
The Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront is a Marriott hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It opened in 1980 as the Portland Marriott Hotel. [2] The hotel underwent a major renovation in 2015. [3] [4] The restaurant Truss replaced the Champions Restaurant & Sports Bar in 2012. [5]
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range , forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [ 1 ]