U.S. Route 197

US 197 runs {{convert|69.93|mi|km|2}} in Oregon and Washington and is maintained by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).

File:rt197bridge.jpg into Maupin in rural Wasco County]]

US 197 begins at an intersection with US 97 at Shaniko Junction in Wasco County, located between the cities of Madras and Shaniko in Central Oregon. The highway, a continuation of The Dalles-California Highway No. 4,{{cite web |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |year=2011 |title=Cross Reference Table of Highway Route Number to State Highway Number |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/asset_mgmt/docs/OTMS/Routes2HwyCrossRef.pdf |access-date=March 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031121150/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/asset_mgmt/docs/OTMS/Routes2HwyCrossRef.pdf |archive-date=October 31, 2012 }} travels northwest over the {{convert|3,363|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} Criterion Summit and down along Stag Canyon through the community of Criterion towards Maupin. US 197 crosses the Deschutes River and a BNSF rail line on a warren truss bridge,{{cite map |title=State of Oregon: Oregon Railroads |date=July 7, 2010 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/RAIL/docs/maps_drawings/or_railroad.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=March 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319071437/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/RAIL/docs/maps_drawings/or_railroad.pdf |url-status=live }} becoming Deschutes Avenue as it passes South Wasco County High School and through the city of Maupin. The highway continues west into the Juniper Flat and intersects Oregon Route 216 (OR 216), designated as Wapinitia Highway No. 44, and forms a concurrency. US 197 and OR 216 travel north and northwest to Tygh Valley, where OR 216 leaves the concurrency and heads east on Sherars Bridge Highway No. 290 towards Grass Valley.{{cite map |title=Oregon Transportation Map Showing Federal Functional Classification of Roads: Wasco County |page=2 |year=2012 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/COUNTYMAPS/Wasc2.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193844/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/COUNTYMAPS/Wasc2.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite map |title=Oregon Transportation Map Showing Federal Functional Classification of Roads: Wasco County |page=3 |year=2012 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/COUNTYMAPS/Wasc3.pdf#page=1&zoom=100,1004,2600 |format=PDF |access-date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716224101/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/countymaps/wasc3.pdf#page=1&zoom=100,1004,2600 |url-status=live }} The lone highway continues north up Butler Canyon onto Tygh Ridge, passing through the {{convert|2,710|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} Tygh Grade Summit. US 197 travels east of Dufur and down into the Columbia River Gorge, entering the city of The Dalles. The highway begins a {{convert|0.24|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} concurrency with US 30, traveling north over an east–west BNSF rail line to a diamond interchange with I-84. US 197 leaves the interchange and the state of Oregon on The Dalles Bridge, crossing over the Columbia River into Washington.{{cite map |title=Oregon Transportation Map Showing Federal Functional Classification of Roads: Wasco County |page=1 |year=2012 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/COUNTYMAPS/Wasc1.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=March 4, 2013 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716223840/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/gis/docs/countymaps/Wasc1.pdf |url-status=live }}{{google maps |title=U.S. Route 197 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=US-197+N%2FThe+Dalles-California+Hwy&daddr=US-197+N&hl=en&ll=45.28422,-121.068135&spn=1.033848,2.705383&sll=45.649193,-121.155446&sspn=0.002006,0.005284&geocode=FWhqrQIdnoXK-A%3BFZSMuAId203H-A&mra=me&mrsp=1,0&sz=18&t=m&z=9 |access-date=July 24, 2008}} An ODOT survey measuring traffic volume for any average day of the year, expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), was conducted in 2011 on US 197 and calculated that the busiest section of the highway in Oregon was on The Dalles Bridge, serving 5,800 vehicles, while the least busiest section of the highway was north of its terminus at US 97, serving 390 vehicles.{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Traffic Volumes on State Highways |year=2011 |url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TDATA/tsm/docs/2011_TVT.pdf |page=6 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |access-date=April 20, 2013 |archive-date=February 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203224207/https://www.oregon.gov/odot/data/pages/index.aspx |url-status=live }}

File:TheDallesBridgeSouth.jpg over the Columbia River into Washington]]

US 197 enters Washington on The Dalles Bridge, a steel cantilever truss bridge that crosses the Columbia River downstream of The Dalles Dam, and travels into Dallesport in Klickitat County. The highway continues north for {{convert|2.76|mi|km}} past Columbia Gorge Regional Airport to its northern terminus, an intersection with SR 14. US 197 is defined by the Washington State Legislature as SR 197, part of the Revised Code of Washington as §[http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.382 47.17.382].{{cite web |url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.382 |title=47.17.382: State route No. 197 |orig-year=1973 |year=1979 |work=Revised Code of Washington |publisher=Washington State Legislature |access-date=July 24, 2008 |archive-date=October 3, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003030218/http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.382 |url-status=live }} Every year, WSDOT conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume, expressed in terms of AADT. In 2012, WSDOT calculated that the Washington section of US 197 served between 3,700 and 6,100 vehicles, mostly on The Dalles Bridge.{{cite web |author=Staff |year=2012 |title=2012 Annual Traffic Report |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/Annual_Traffic_Report_2012.pdf |page=156 |access-date=March 23, 2013 |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224111057/http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/Annual_Traffic_Report_2012.pdf |url-status=live }}

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US 197 within Washington was added to the state highway system in 1907 as State Road 8, later designated as PSH 8 in 1937, traveling east along the Columbia River from Vancouver to Maryhill.{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1907 |date=March 13, 1907 |access-date=March 17, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Isk4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 151: Providing for the Establishment, Construction and Maintenance of State Roads and Making Appropriations for Certain State Roads |pages=310–311 |quote=State Road No. 8, or the Columbia River road: This road shall begin at the town of Washougal in Clarke county, Washington, and run thence over the line as surveyed for such state road through Clarke and Skamania counties, and thence over the most practicable route to the town of Goldendale, in Klickitat county.}}{{cite book |author=Washington State Legislature |title=Session Laws of the State of Washington |edition=1937 |date=March 17, 1937 |access-date=March 17, 2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcQ4AAAAIAAJ |publisher=Washington State Legislature |location=Olympia, Washington |chapter=Chapter 190: Establishment of Primary State Highways |pages=937–938 |quote=SEC. 8. A primary state highway to be known as Primary State Highway No. 8, or the Evergreen Highway, is hereby established according to description as follows: Beginning at Vancouver on Primary State Highway No. 1, thence in an easterly direction by the most feasible route by way of Stevenson to Goldendale, thence in a northeasterly direction by the most feasible route by way of Satus Pass to a junction with Primary State Highway No. 3, southeast of Yakima. |archive-date=October 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001194858/http://books.google.com/books?id=dcQ4AAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Long |first=Priscilla |date=June 12, 2006 |title=The Dalles Bridge spanning the Columbia River is completed on December 18, 1953. |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7804 |work=HistoryLink |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=October 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020231818/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7804 |url-status=live }} US 197 within Oregon is designated as a segment of The Dalles-California Highway No. 4, created as part of the initial named state highway system, adopted by the Oregon State Highway Commission on November 27, 1917. The highway traveled south from The Dalles through Central Oregon to the California state line south of Klamath Falls.{{cite book |year=1917 |publisher=Oregon Secretary of State |title=Constitution and statutes of the state of Oregon relating to roads, highways, bridges and ferries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KQpAAAAYAAJ |access-date=March 10, 2013}}{{cite news |date=June 19, 1917 |title=To Cinder State Highway |work=The Spokesman-Review |page=13 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8LBXAAAAIBAJ&dq=dalles-california%20highway&pg=2730%2C4941180 |access-date=March 17, 2013}} Under the United States Numbered Highway system, approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) on November 11, 1926,{{cite web |last=Weingroff |first=Richard F. |title=From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System |date=January 9, 2009 |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm |work=Highway History |publisher=Federal Highway Administration |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=May 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521204506/http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm |url-status=live }} State Road 8 in Washington was co-signed with US 830 from Vancouver to Maryhill and The Dalles-California Highway in Oregon was co-signed with US 97 from Shaniko Junction to the California state line.{{cite map |author1= Bureau of Public Roads |author2= American Association of State Highway Officials |date= November 11, 1926 |title= United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url= https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale= 1:7,000,000 |location= Washington, DC |publisher= United States Geological Survey |oclc= 32889555 |access-date= November 7, 2013 |via= Wikimedia Commons |name-list-style= amp}} The Oregon State Highway Department created a numbered state highway system to complement the U.S. route system on May 18, 1937, and The Dalles-California Highway from Shaniko Junction to The Dalles was numbered as OR 50. OR 50 was renumbered to OR 23 on May 26, 1950, and became the Oregon section of US 197 when it was established in 1952.

US 197 traveled north onto the newly constructed The Dalles Bridge over the Columbia River to US 830 and PSH 8 northeast of Dallesport and traveled east with the two highways to end at US 97 in Maryhill.{{cite map |publisher=United States Geological Survey |title=The Dalles, 1953 |year=1953 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-the_dalles-1953.jpg |scale=1:250,000 |format=JPG |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023052933/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-the_dalles-1953.jpg |url-status=live }} US 830 and its concurrency with US 197 were removed from the U.S. route system in 1968,{{cite map |publisher=Rand McNally |title=Northwest, 1967 |year=1967 |url=http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Northwest/gousha_ra_1967_028.html |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=August 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830033528/http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Northwest/gousha_ra_1967_028.html |url-status=live }}{{cite map |publisher=United States Geological Survey |title=The Dalles, 1971 |year=1971 |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-the_dalles-1971.jpg |scale=1:250,000 |format=JPG |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=October 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022102844/http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-the_dalles-1971.jpg |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=State Approves Route Extension |date=April 21, 1966 |page=12 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7BeAAAAIBAJ&pg=2350,3856466&dq=us+highway+197&hl=en |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |access-date=March 22, 2013 |archive-date=February 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203224254/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7BeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gy8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=2350%2C3856466&dq=us+highway+197&hl=en |url-status=live }} leaving US 197 concurrent with the successor to PSH 8, SR 14, after the 1964 state highway renumbering.{{cite web |last=Prahl |first=C. G. |title=Identification of State Highways |url=https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2005/04/26/Identification-of-state-highways.pdf |publisher=Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways |date=December 1, 1965 |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=February 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202073838/https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2005/04/26/Identification-of-state-highways.pdf |url-status=live }} The concurrency with SR 14 was removed from the Washington state highway system in 1979,{{cite web |author=Staff |year=1980 |title=Annual Traffic Report, 1980 |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/1980_ATR.pdf |page=152 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318215916/http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/travel/pdf/1980_ATR.pdf |archive-date=March 18, 2011 }} but remained as a part of US 197 as defined by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) until September 22, 2006.{{cite web |title=An Application from the State Highway or Transportation Department of Washington for the Elimination of U.S. Route 197 (part) |author=Washington State Department of Transportation |publisher=American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |url=http://route.transportation.org/Documents/ElectronicApplicationFormUS197.pdf |date=September 22, 2006 |access-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-date=December 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226111208/http://route.transportation.org/Documents/ElectronicApplicationFormUS197.pdf |url-status=live }}

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• [http://usends.com/197.html US 197 at US Highway Ends]
• [http://www.oregonhighways.us/html_files/Highways/hwy-004.html The Dalles-California Highway #4 at Oregon Highways]
• [https://www.angelfire.com/wa2/hwysofwastate/us197.html US 197 at Highways of Washington State]

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