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Location map of Hood River OR name Hood River OR border coordinates 45.7209 -121.5557 ←↕→ -121.4951 45.6921 map center image Hood River OR - OpenStreetMap.png: image1 Hood River OR - OpenStreetMap.png
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English: This is a locator map showing Hood River County in Oregon. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
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 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.
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]
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 ...
Odell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. [5] Odell was named for an early pioneer, William Odell, a native of Tennessee by way of California, who settled in the area in 1861. The population was 2,255 as of the 2010 census. [6]