Route Description
State Route 203 (SR 203) begins its 24.26 miles (39.04 km) of highway at an interesction with SR 202, a primarily west–east route, in Fall City. There, the road is named the Fall City–Carnation Road and travels northwest, paralleling the former route of the Monroe–Tanner route operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. After bridging the Rutherford Slough twice, the route travels closer to the shoreline of the Snoqualmie River. SR 203 runs north past Northeast Tolt Hill Road to cross the Tolt River into Carnation. Leaving Carnation, the highway becomes the Carnation–Duvall Road and intersects Carnation Farm Road before curving west to intersect Stillwater Hill Road. Eventually, the roadway continues the original northern route past the 124th Street roundabout into Duvall. In Duvall, SR 203 intersects the Woodinville–Duvall Road and Cherry Valley Road before curving along the Snoqualmie River shoreline into Snohomish County. After leaving Duvall and King County, SR 203 becomes the Duvall–Monroe Road and travels north to cross the Skykomish River and enter Monroe as Lewis Street. In Monroe, the highway parallels Woods Creek and intersects Main Street near the Monroe Greyhound Lines station. After Main Street, the road crosses the BNSF Railway Everett–Spokane line and ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and Chain Lake Road. South of the US 2 intersection, an estimated 15,000 motorists used Lewis Street daily in 2007 based on average annual daily traffic (AADT) data collected by the Washington State Department of Transportation.
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