End of US highway 830 |
US 830 measured 201.7 miles in total length.
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US 830 was entirely in Washington, running along the north bank of the Columbia River, connecting US 97 to US 101. It never connected with its implied "parent" (US 30), but that route ran (and still does run) along the south bank in Oregon, right across the river from US 830. This first photo was looking west on WA hwy. 4 where it ends at US 101:
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That segment of historic US 101 is no longer open to vehicles. Today US 101 continues ahead for about a half-mile, and then makes a left turn to the north. After another half-mile or so, it rejoins the original alignment.
This photo was looking the opposite direction (west, on southbound US 101). Historically US 101 traffic came in from behind the tree at far right, so this was the perspective of a driver at the west end of US 830: |
Until the mid-1930s the highway running along the north bank of the Columbia (today's WA hwy. 14) was not complete between Lyle and Maryhill. So when US 830 was first commissioned, traffic was routed northeast out of Lyle, along what is now known as the Centerville Highway: through its eponymous town, ending at US 97 about four miles south of Goldendale. This 1927 map attempted to illustrate that (note the lack of a road between Maryhill and Lyle):
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In about 1933, US 830 was rerouted east of Lyle, following the north bank of the Columbia River, largely along what is now WA 14. So then its endpoint was still at US 97, but further south of Goldendale, closer to Maryhill. Originally US 97 followed an older alignment up the Columbia Hills north of Maryhill:
North of modern hwy. 14, this route is now known as the "Old Maryhill Loops Road", so-called because of the tortuous switchbacks that almost seem to be stacked on top of each other (this old alignment has since been re-paved and opened to non-motorized traffic). South of hwy. 14, US 97 partially followed what is now a county road used to access the Stonehenge replica. However, the middle segment of that road is newer, and old US 97 probably followed a different route slightly downslope from there (now mostly abandoned). This photo was looking west on Stonehenge Road:
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Historically that was southbound US 97, which probably continued down the canyon at left, winding up at the old ferry landing in Maryhill (US 97 traffic crossed the Columbia via ferry until about 1962). Straight ahead would have been the east beginning of US 830. Here we are looking the opposite direction (west on Stonehenge):
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That likely shows the former east end of US 830, because US 97 came up from the lower right and continued ahead and to the right. It was about 1949 when this route was bypassed in favor of modern US 97. At that time US 830 was reconfigured too, and then its east end was a little ways to the north and west from here (where today's WA 14 meets US 97); more info and photos on the Maryhill page.
Research and/or photo credits: Mark Bozanich; Chris Elbert; Dale Sanderson; Michael Summa; Mike Wiley
Page originally created 2002;
last updated Dec. 7, 2023.
last updated Dec. 7, 2023.