Willamette Falls Locks

Willamette Falls Locks is a protected area in Clackamas, Oregon. Willamette Falls Locks is situated nearby to Canal Basin, as well as near the power station T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant and Willamette Falls.

T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant

Power station

Portland General Electric's T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric dam on the Willamette Falls built between 1888 and 1895. It is the source of the nation's first long-distance power transmission.

Willamette Falls

Waterfall

Photo: Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall in the northwestern United States, located on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon.

Blue Star Memorial Highway

Memorial

Photo: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Blue Star Memorial Highways are highways in the United States that are marked to pay tribute to the U.S. armed forces. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, now known as National Garden Clubs, Inc., started the program in 1945 after World War II. Blue Star Memorial Highway is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Willamette Falls Locks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oregon City and West Linn.

Oregon City

Photo: Adam Herstein, CC BY 2.0.

Oregon City is a city of 37,000 people in the Portland Metropolitan Area. The seat of suburban Clackamas County, it is best known as being the end of the Oregon Trail. Several tourist attractions in the city commemorate this history.

West Linn

Town

Photo: Taromsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.

West Linn is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A southern suburb in the Portland metropolitan area, West Linn developed on the site of the former Linn City, which was named after US Senator Lewis F.

Gladstone

Photo: Aboutmovies, CC BY 3.0.

Gladstone is a town in the Portland Metropolitan Area guarded by the Clackamas and Willamette River, where this is plenty of fishing. It is a wonderful small community that is surrounded by many other cities so you are never far from anything.

Willamette Falls Locks

Type: Protected area
Category: historic site
Location: Clackamas, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

45.35442° or 45° 21′ 16″ north

Longitude

-122.61812° or 122° 37′ 5″ west

Inception

1873

Open location code

84QV993J+QQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1290435488

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=maritime

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Canal Basin and Guard Lock.

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