Vantage - Washington
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Volcanoguy
N 46° 58.390 W 119° 58.297
11T E 273974 N 5206469
I-90 viewpoint which overlooks the original site of Vantage, Washington.
Waymark Code: WM874D
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 02/11/2010
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From the guidebook:
West of the junction, at 135.6 m., State 7 crosses the Columbia on the high steel Vantage Bridge.
VANTAGE, 136.2 m. (450 alt., 6 pop.), is a gasoline station, a small store, and a lone frame house. State 7 twists up the right bank of a rocky coulee, at the bottom of which patches of vivid green indicate the bushes growing along the trickle of water, and furnish the only contrast to the dun-colored sage and red-brown rocks.
---Washington: A guide to the Evergreen State
Across the river from this viewpoint is the site of the original community of Vantage. The bridge served until 1962 when it was replaced by the current I-90 bridge. The old bridge was dismantled and moved to the Snake River crossing at Lyons Ferry. Following the opening of I-90, the community was move to a new location at the west end of the I-90 bridge. Construction of the Wanapum Dam, 5 miles downstream, began in 1959 and with the filling of the reservoir in 1963 the original site of the community was covered by about 50 feet of water.