Columbia River Highway may refer to the following:
- Historic Columbia River Highway No. 100, a scenic highway built from 1913 to 1922 through the Columbia River Gorge
- Columbia River Highway No. 2, an Oregon highway from Portland to Washington via I-84 and US 730; this replaced the Historic Columbia River Highway in the gorge
- Lower Columbia River Highway No. 2W, US 30 in Oregon between Astoria and Portland
- See also
- Washington State Route 14 on the north side of the river
Famous quotes containing the words columbia, river and/or highway:
“The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for womens broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itselffor it is from the soil, both from its depth and from its surface, that a river has its beginning.”
—Laura Gilpin (18911979)
“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)