Cascade Locks, Oregon

{{other uses|Cascade Locks and Canal}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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| official_name = Cascade Locks, Oregon

| settlement_type = City

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| image_skyline = Cascadelocks1.png

| imagesize = 220px

| image_caption = Former locks on the Columbia River, with the modern Bridge of the Gods in the background

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| map_caption = Location in Oregon

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

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| subdivision_name1 = Oregon

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Hood River

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Brenda Wood

| established_title = Incorporated

| established_date = 1935

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| area_total_sq_mi = 3.03

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| area_total_km2 = 7.85

| area_land_sq_mi = 2.08

| area_land_km2 = 5.40

| area_water_sq_mi = 0.95

| area_water_km2 = 2.46

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| population_total = 1530

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| population_density_km2 = 255.42

| population_density_sq_mi = 661.39

| timezone = Pacific

| utc_offset = -8

| timezone_DST = Pacific

| utc_offset_DST = -7

| coordinates = {{coord|45|40|21|N|121|52|25|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}

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| elevation_ft = 151

| website = {{URL|cascade-locks.or.us}}

| postal_code_type = ZIP code

| postal_code = 97014

| area_code = 541 and 458

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| blank_info = 41-11600

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File:Sternwheeler, "J.N. Teal".jpg J.N. Teal in Cascade Locks, 1911

Note the Brass Era cars on foredeck.]]

Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896. The locks were subsequently submerged in 1938, replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam, although the city did not lose land from the expansion of Lake Bonneville behind the dam some {{convert|4|mi|km|0}} downstream of the city. The city population was 1,144 at the 2010 census.{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4111600| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Cascade Locks city, Oregon| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=January 17, 2018| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213114320/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4111600| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}

File:Cascade Locks - DPLA - 64158b3b6f8c35c92cdac00472664257.jpg

Image:Cascade Locks Oregon post office.jpg in the background]]

Cascade Locks is just upstream from the Bridge of the Gods, a toll bridge that spans the Columbia River. It is the only bridge across the Columbia between Portland and Hood River. Cascade Locks is a few miles upstream of Eagle Creek Gorge, a popular scenic area that doubles as an alternate route for the Pacific Crest Trail. Cascade Locks is used frequently by hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) to cross the Columbia River. Cascade Locks is the lowest point along the trail, which runs from the Mexico–US border in California to the Canada–US border in Washington, and the largest city directly on the trail.{{cite news |last=Richard |first=Terry |date=August 30, 2015 |title=The softer, gentler approach to Pacific Crest Trail |page=R4 |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/08/pacific_crest_trail_stretches.html |work=The Oregonian |access-date=June 22, 2018}}

Since 1999 the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have been pursuing an off-reservation casino to be sited in Cascade Locks.{{cite news |title=Gamble in the Gorge? |first=Joshua |last=Partlow |work=The Oregonian |location=Portland, Oregon |date=March 11, 2008}} Since 2008, city officials have been pursuing an arrangement that would allow them to trade city well water for state-owned spring water and to sell it to Nestlé for bottling. In May 2016, Hood River County voters voted over 68% in favor to stop the project permanently.{{cite web|url=http://www.kgw.com/news/local/green/cascade-locks-considers-action-after-nestle-plant-voted-down/201823300|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105094253/http://www.kgw.com:80/news/local/green/cascade-locks-considers-action-after-nestle-plant-voted-down/201823300|archive-date=2017-11-05|title=Cascade Locks considers action after Nestle plant voted down}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/05/anti-nestle_ballot_measure_in.html|title=Anti-Nestle ballot measure: Bid to block Cascade Locks water plant succeeds (Election results)|date=18 May 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://koin.com/2016/05/17/hood-river-county-voters-water-bottling-measure-nestle-05172016/ |title=Voters pass measure to keep Nestle out of Cascade Locks |access-date=2016-05-18 |archive-date=2017-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510043915/http://koin.com/2016/05/17/hood-river-county-voters-water-bottling-measure-nestle-05172016/ |url-status=dead }}