Columbia River Highway may refer to the following:
- Historic Columbia River Highway No. 100, a scenic highway built from 1913 to 1922 through the Columbia River Gorge
- Columbia River Highway No. 2, an Oregon highway from Portland to Washington via I-84 and US 730; this replaced the Historic Columbia River Highway in the gorge
- Lower Columbia River Highway No. 2W, US 30 in Oregon between Astoria and Portland
- See also
- Washington State Route 14 on the north side of the river
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“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
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