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name = Hood River OR Name used in the default map caption; image = Hood River OR - OpenStreetMap.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = Hood River OR - OpenStreetMap.png An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 45.7209
Hood River; Odell (Oregon) Parkdale (Oregon) Plantilla:Comtat de Hood River; Comtat de Hood River; Llista de comtats d'Oregon; Usage on cdo.wikipedia.org Hood River Gông (Oregon) Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Hood River County; Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Худ-Ривер (гуо, Орегон) Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Hood River County; Usage on ...
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.
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.
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.
It was closer to the river than the old county road, yet higher than Elliott's river alignment, in order to avoid closing the rail line during blasting. Just after leaving Hood River on a 1918 bridge over the Hood River, which had replaced an older wooden truss bridge, the highway climbed via a series of loops, similar to the ones at Crown ...
It divides the Sandy River watershed on the southwest from the Hood River watershed on the northeast. At 3,415 feet (1,041 m), it provides a much lower crossing of the Cascade Range near Mount Hood than the 4,650-foot (1,420 m) Oregon Route 35 Bennett Pass on the southeast side. Access from the southwest side of the pass is paved all the way to ...
Oregon Route 35 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oregon, running between Government Camp on the slopes of Mount Hood and the city of Hood River.OR 35 traverses part of the Mt. Hood Highway No. 26 (Mount Hood Scenic Byway) and part of the Historic Columbia River Highway No. 100 of the Oregon state highway system. [2]