Route Description
OR 212 begins east of Boring and northwest of Sandy at an interchange with U.S. Route 26. OR 212 heads west, through the small town of Boring, and through the small city of Damascus. On the route between these two towns are numerous intersections with backroads that lead to Gresham, Portland's biggest eastern suburb. The sides of this route are covered in farms and berry fields. This section of OR 212 is the Clackamas-Boring Highway No. 174 (see Oregon highways and routes).
After Damascus, the highway intersects with OR 224, just east of Clackamas. It quickly becomes four lanes (two in each direction) as it speeds past warehouses in the Portland suburb, marked as both OR 212 and OR 224. After several miles, which are heavily traveled by trucks, the highway comes to its western terminus, at an intersection with Interstate 205 and OR 213. This section of OR 212 is part of the Clackamas Highway No. 171.
Plans are in the works to build a new alignment of OR 212 between I-205 and US 26; this new route (called the Sunrise Corridor) is expected to be (at least for the westernmost segment) a freeway.
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