White Pass (Washington)

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White Pass
US Highway 12 over the White Pass

US Highway 12 over the White Pass

Pass height 1371.6  m
Washington Lewis County / Yakima County
expansion US Highway 12
Mountains Cascade chain
Map (Washington)
White Pass (Washington) (Washington)
White Pass (Washington)
Coordinates 46 ° 38 '18 "  N , 121 ° 23' 24"  W Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '18 "  N , 121 ° 23' 24"  W.
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The White Pass (1,371.6 m high ) is a mountain pass in the Pacific Northwest of the United States over the Cascade Range in Washington State , southeast of Mount Rainier and north of the Goat Rocks . The US Highway 12 crosses the pass, connecting the Yakima County to the east with the Lewis County in the west.

A shortcut over the White Pass between Packwood and Naches was first run over the pass as State Road 5 in 1931 , and completed in August 1951 as a link that was later established as US Highway 12 .

The White Pass Ski Area , located on the top of the pass, was opened on January 11, 1953. The master ski racers, twins Phil and Steve Mahre (and their seven siblings) grew up on White Pass, where their father Dave Mahre was the manager of the ski area . Professional snowboarder Marc Frank Montoya, the owner of Block Hotels , also lives at White Pass .

The pass is about forty kilometers southeast of the summit of Mount Rainier as the crow flies, fifty kilometers north of Mount Adams .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Want highway via White Pass . In: Spokesman Review , January 22, 1931, p. 3. 
  2. ^ Washington highway map , HM Gousha. 1956. Retrieved January 20, 2017. 
  3. ^ State roads as established by legislature (1893–1935) . In: Department of Transportation . Retrieved January 20, 2017.

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