Bridge of the Gods
Coordinates: 45 ° 39 ′ 45 ″ N , 121 ° 54 ′ 5 ″ W.
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Columbia River | |
| place | Cascade Locks , Oregon and Washington | |
| Entertained by | Port of Cascade Locks | |
| construction | Cantilever bridge | |
| overall length | 566 meters | |
| Longest span | 215 meters | |
| height | 41.1 meters | |
| opening | 1926 | |
| toll | Yes | |
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The Bridge of the Gods ("Bridge of the Gods") is a toll bridge built with steel cantilever girders for motor vehicles , which leads over the Columbia River . It was made necessary by the construction of the Bonneville Dam (1933–1936) and opened in 1926.
The bridge is 566.32 meters long and rises a maximum of 41.15 meters above the river. Located 40 miles east of Portland and 4 miles upriver from Bonneville Dam , it connects Cascade Locks in Oregon with neighboring Washington State . The Fernwanderweg Pacific Crest Trail , which extends to the Canadian border of the Mexican, via the bridge.
The name of the bridge comes from the mythological Bridge of the Gods . According to the ideas of the Indian peoples of the region, this was a rock bridge over the Columbia River, which was destroyed in a dispute between the Sons of the Great Spirit over a beautiful woman. The Great Spirit could only end the fight when it transformed the two men Wyeast and Klickitat and the young woman Loowit into the mountains of Mount Hood , Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ One site on the modern-day Bridge of the Gods (English)
- ↑ United States Forest Service: Mount St. Helens , 1980. ( Online )