Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "Views from Crown Point and Vista House"

Includes ... Crown Point ... Vista House ... Historic Columbia River Highway ... National Register of Historic Places ...

Click image to enlarge Looking towards the Columbia River Gorge, Crown Point, and Vista House. View from The Portland Womans Forum Scenic View (formerly Chanticleer Point). Image taken October 11, 2004. Views from Crown Point and Vista House Tunnel Point and Onion Rock ... Reed Island and Steigerwald Lake NWR ... Reed Island, Steigerwald Lake, NWR, and Rooster Rock ... Steigerwald Lake NWR ... Rooster Rock State Park ... Cape Horn ... Shepperds Dell and Young Creek ... Upstream from Vista House ... Tunnel Point and Onion Rock ... Onion Rock Tunnel Point Click image to enlarge Tunnel Point and Onion Rock, from Crown Point, Oregon. View from Vista House, Crown Point, Oregon. Image taken March 6, 2005. Reed Island and Steigerwald Lake NWR ... Cottonwood Beach Reed Island Rooster Rock State Park Steigerwald Lake NWR Washougal Click image to enlarge Reed Island, Washington, as seen from Crown Point, Oregon. Steigerwald Lake NWR is in the distance on the Washington shore. Rooster Rock State Park, Oregon, is in the foreground and the Washington community of Washougal can be seen in the background. The treed strip behind Reed Island is Washougal's Cottonwood Beach, one of the Lewis and Clark campsites. Image taken October 11, 2004. Reed Island, Steigerwald Lake NWR, and Rooster Rock ... Reed Island Rooster Rock Rooster Rock State Park Steigerwald Lake NWR Click image to enlarge View downstream from Crown Point, Oregon. View of Reed Island, Steigerwald Lake NWR, Rooster Rock, and the Rooster Rock State Park boat dock. Image taken October 11, 2004. Steigerwald Lake NWR ... Point Vancouver Steigerwald Lake NWR Click image to enlarge Steigerwald Lake NWR and Point Vancouver, Washington, as seen from Vista House, Crown Point, Oregon. Image taken October 21, 2006. Click image to enlarge Steigerwald Lake NWR and Point Vancouver, Washington, as seen from Vista House at Crown Point, Oregon. The Historic Columbia River Highway is in the foreground. Image taken June 27, 2004. Rooster Rock State Park ... Biddle Butte (Mount Zion) Boring Lava Field Cape Horn Mount Pleasant Rooster Rock State Park Click image to enlarge Rooster Rock State Park as seen from Crown Point, Oregon. Washington State's Cape Horn is in the background along with Mount Pleasant, the rounded Boring Lava hill on the left, and Biddle Butte, a small Boring Lava cone rising above Cape Horn, on the right. Image taken October 11, 2004. Click image to enlarge Rooster Rock State Park, Oregon, and Cape Horn, Washington, as seen from Crown Point, Oregon. The Boring Lava cone of Biddle Butte rises above Cape Horn. Image taken October 11, 2004. Cape Horn ... Cape Horn Phoca Rock Click image to enlarge Cape Horn, Washington, as seen from Crown Point, Oregon. Phoca Rock is just visible on the right. Image taken October 10, 2004. Shepperds Dell and Young Creek ... Shepperds Dell Young Creek Click image to enlarge Columbia River Gorge, looking upstream, as seen from Vista House, Crown Point, Oregon. The Historic Looking at the Columbia River Highway in the foreground and Young Creek (Shepperds Dell) on the right. Sand Island is in the middle ground with Dalton Point jutting into the Columbia and Angel's Rest rising above. Phoca Rock is just visible on the left and Beacon Rock is in the background. Image taken October 10, 2004. Click image to enlarge Columbia River Gorge, looking upstream, as seen from Vista House, Crown Point, Oregon. The Historic Looking at the Columbia River Highway in the foreground and Young Creek (Shepperds Dell) on the right. Sand Island is in the middle ground with Dalton Point jutting into the Columbia and Angel's Rest rising above. Phoca Rock is just visible on the left and Beacon Rock is in the background. Image taken October 21, 2006. Upstream from Vista House ... Click image to enlarge Penny Postcard: Columbia Gorge from Crown Point, Columbia River Highway, Oregon. Penny Postcard, White Border, Divided Back, "Columbia River Gorge, From Crown Point, Columbia River Highway.". Published by Chas. S. Lipschuetz Company, Portland, Oregon. Card #364. In the private collection of Lyn Topinka. Caption on back: "Columbia Gorge From Crown Point showing Cape Horn and Castle Rock in the distance. This view shows the concrete supports on the brink of Thor's Heights and is one of the most prominent view points along the Columbia River." Click image to enlarge Penny Postcard: Columbia Gorge from Crown Point, Columbia River Highway, Oregon. Penny Postcard, White Border, Divided Back, "Columbia Gorge Looking East From Crown Point, Columbia River Highway.". Copyright Weister Co. Published by Chas. S. Lipschuetz Company, Portland, Oregon. Card #325. In the private collection of Lyn Topinka. Caption on back: "Columbia Gorge From Crown Point. Columbia Gorge from Crown Point showing Cape Horn, and Castle Rock in the distance. This view shows the concrete supports on the brink of Thor's Heights, and is one of th emost prominent view-points along the Columbia River." Click image to enlarge Painting the view from Crown Point, Oregon. Image taken July 27, 2008. Click image to enlarge Historic Columbia River Highway at Crown Point. Image taken October 11, 2004. "The Golden Age of Postcards" ... The early 1900s was the "Golden Age of Postcards", with the "Penny Postcard" being a popular way to send greetings to family and friends. Today the Penny Postcard has become a snapshot of history. From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ... Clark, November 2, 1805 ... Return to Menu

*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003 Sources:    See Crown Point;    All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.

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