Snoqualmie Pass History

Snoqualmie Pass East According Wikipedia.org, located in state of Washington are the beautiful Cascade Mountains. Snoqualmie Pass is located in the at the center of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, and is a total area of 2.9 miles, with the Mountain's elevation of 3022'. The Washington State Transportation Department tells us that “Native Americans on both sides of the mountains carved foot trails across the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass,” The site continues to inform that the “Pacific Northwest tribes like the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe and Yakama Nation, used foot and horse trails across the Central Cascade mountains for trading as it had the lowest pass elevation in the territory.” The United States Government started to search for railroad routes and wagon trails across the Cascades in 1854. …show more content…
The east side of the pass continued to be only a trail and forced the settlers to travel on barges and rafts to cross Lake Keechelus. The entire road crossing the pass was completed from Seattle to Ellensburg in 1865.In 1884 a toll fee was placed on the road to pay for the maintenance as flooding, avalanches and rockslides were a constant problem. “By 1905, harsh winters and flooding forced settlers to rebuild the road several times to provide a safer and passable road.”
In the states effort to promote the 1909 Alaska-Yukon -Pacific Exposition in Seattle the Washington Department of Transportation upgraded the road which helped to promote a automobile race across the