Washington State Route 285

State Route 285
SR 285 is highlighted in red.
Route information
Auxiliary route of SR 28
Maintained by WSDOT
Length	5.04 mi[1] (8.11 km)
Existed	1977[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	SR 28 in East Wenatchee
North end	US 2 / US 97 in Sunnyslope
Location
Country	United States
State	Washington
Counties	Douglas, Chelan
Highway system
State highways in Washington Interstate US State Scenic Pre-1964 1964 renumbering Former
← SR 283 → SR 290

State Route 285 (SR 285) is a short state highway serving Douglas and Chelan counties, located in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway serves Wenatchee and runs 5 miles (8 km) from an interchange with State Route 28 (SR 28) in East Wenatchee to Downtown Wenatchee, crossing the Columbia River on the Senator George Sellar Bridge. After traversing downtown, the highway ends at an interchange with U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and US 97 north of the Wenatchee River in Sunnyslope.

The highway originally crossed the Columbia River on an earlier bridge built in 1908. The bridge was signed as part of State Road 7 in 1909 and later State Road 2 (the Sunset Highway) in 1923. The roadway was used by US 10 from 1926 until 1940, when it was re-routed and replaced by an alternate route. US 2 was extended from Idaho into Washington in 1946 and used the bridge until the newer Senator George Sellar Bridge was built to the south in 1950. SR 285 was designated in 1977 after US 2 was routed onto the Richard Odabashian Bridge north of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. The area around the Senator George Sellar Bridge is being improved by the Washington State Department of Transportation to handle increased traffic.

Route description

SR 285 begins its 5.04-mile-long (8.11 km) long route at a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR 28 west of the Wenatchee Valley Mall in East Wenatchee.[1][3] The freeway crosses the Columbia River from Douglas County into Wenatchee and Chelan County on the Senator George Sellar Bridge, listed as a part of the National Register of Historic Places.[4][5] The highway becomes Stevens Street and has a small interchange with Wenatchee Avenue before turning north onto Mission Street.[6]

SR 285 serves Downtown Wenatchee and splits into a one-way pair with southbound lanes on Chelan Avenue and northbound lanes staying on Mission Street,[7] passing the Wenatchee branch of the NCW Libraries at Memorial Park and the Wenatchee Valley Hospital.[8][9] The one-way pair rejoins the main route,[7] turning north as Miller Street and then northwest as Wenatchee Avenue into West Wenatchee near Wenatchee Confluence State Park.[10] Wenatchee Avenue crosses the Wenatchee River into Sunnyslope and becomes a freeway, intersecting Penny Road and Easy Street in an incomplete diamond interchange before ending at an interchange with US 2 and US 97.[11][12]

The Senator George Sellar Bridge is the busiest section of SR 285, being used by a daily average of 52,000 vehicles in 2011. The southern end of the one-way pair, at the intersection of Chelan Avenue and Mission Street, had a daily average of 22,000 vehicles in 2011.[13]

History

The cantilever truss Columbia River Bridge was built in 1908 by the Washington Bridge Company and purchased by the Washington State Highway Commission the following year to serve Wenatchee and East Wenatchee, divided by the Columbia River.[14][15][16] The bridge and the streets were signed as State Road 7 in 1909 as part of the highway from Renton to Idaho,[17][18] later named the Sunset Highway in 1913.[19] The Sunset Highway became State Road 2 in a 1923 renumbering before the creation of US 10 in 1926.[20][21]

The Senator George Sellar Bridge, constructed in 1950, was used by US 2 until 1975 and is now used by SR 285.

State Road 2 became Primary State Highway 2 (PSH 2) in 1937 during the creation of the primary and secondary state highway system.[22] US 10 was re-routed south to cross the Columbia River at Vantage in the 1940s and was designated as US 10 Alternate,[23] until US 2 was extended from Bonners Ferry, Idaho to Everett in 1946.[24][25][26] The Columbia River Bridge was replaced by a new bridge (since 2000 named Senator George Sellar Bridge) in 1950 and US 2 was re-routed south onto the bridge.[5][27][28] PSH 2 was decommissioned during the 1964 renumbering and US 2 remained.[29][30] US 2 was re-routed, along with US 97, onto the Richard Odabashian Bridge in Sunnyslope, bypassing Wenatchee in 1975.[31] SR 285 was established in 1977 to maintain the Senator George Sellar Bridge and only included the short route until 1991,[32] when it was extended to Sunnyslope.[2][33]

Between May 2009 and July 2011, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) added an additional eastbound lane on the Sellar Bridge by moving the sidewalks to a new structure on the outside of the bridge,[34] opening on July 29, 2011.[35] A southbound bypass lane for SR 28 was completed in 2013.[36][37] At the west end of the bridge, in Downtown Wenatchee, a new off-ramp to Crescent Street and signal improvements at Mission Street were completed in December 2013.[38]

Major intersections

County	Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Douglas	East Wenatchee	0.00	0.00	SR 28 to US 2 – Quincy, Ephrata, Ninth Street, Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee City Center	Southern terminus
Columbia River		0.16– 0.39	0.26– 0.63	Senator George Sellar Bridge
Chelan	Wenatchee	0.39– 0.47	0.63– 0.76	Wenatchee Avenue – Business Center, Convention Center	Interchange, northbound exit and southbound entrance
		1.11	1.79	Chelan Avenue	Southern terminus of one-way pair
		2.86	4.60	Miller Street	Northern terminus of one-way pair
	Sunnyslope			South end of freeway
		4.48– 4.58	7.21– 7.37	Easy Street, Penny Road	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		4.93– 5.04	7.93– 8.11	US 2 / US 97 – Yakima, Ellensburg, Okanogan, Spokane	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access

References

1. Staff (2012). "State Highway Log: Planning Report 2011, SR 2 to SR 971" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. pp. 1321–1326. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
2. "47.17.517: State route No. 285". Revised Code of Washington. Washington State Legislature. 1977. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
3. "SR 28 - Junction SR 285/SR 28 CO WENTCH" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
4. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List of Actions - June 16, 1995" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. June 16, 1995. p. 36. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
5. Krier, Robert H.; Barber, J. Byron; Bruce, Robin; Holstine, Craig (December 12, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places - Registration Form: Columbia River Bridge at Wenatchee" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
6. "SR 285 - Junction Wenatchee Avenue" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. February 11, 2003. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
7. "SR 285 - Junction SR 285 CO WENTCH" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. October 1, 2004. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
8. "Wenatchee Public Library". North Central Regional Library. 2008. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
9. "Wenatchee Valley Hospital". Wenatchee Valley Medical Center. 2008. Archived from the original on August 22, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
10. "Complete Information for Wenatchee Confluence". Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
11. "US 2/97 - Junction SR 285" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. April 3, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
12. "State Route 285" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
13. Staff (2011). "2011 Annual Traffic Report" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. pp. 167, 230. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
14. Soderberg, Lisa (June 1980). "HAER Inventory: Bridges, Trestles, and Aqueducts - Columbia River Bridge" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
15. "National Register of Historic Places; Annual Listing of Historic Properties" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. March 1, 1983. p. 44. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
16. Topography of the State of Washington: Wenatchee Quadrangle (JPG) (Map). 1:62,500. United States Geological Survey. October 1915. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
17. Washington State Legislature (March 13, 1909). "Chapter 51: Providing for the Survey of Certain State Roads". Session Laws of the State of Washington (1909 ed.). Olympia, Washington: Washington State Legislature. p. 95. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
18. State of Washington Highway Map (DJVU) (Map). Department of Highways. April 1, 1933. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
19. Washington State Legislature (March 17, 1913). "Chapter 65: Classifying Public Highways". Session Laws of the State of Washington (1913 ed.). Olympia, Washington: Washington State Legislature. p. 221. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
20. Washington State Legislature (March 19, 1923). "Chapter 185: Primary and Secondary State Highways". Session Laws of the State of Washington (1923 ed.). Olympia, Washington: Washington State Legislature. p. 628. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
21. Bureau of Public Roads & American Association of State Highway Officials (November 11, 1926). United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials (Map). 1:7,000,000. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey. OCLC 32889555. Retrieved November 7, 2013 – via Wikimedia Commons.
22. Washington State Legislature (March 17, 1937). "Chapter 190: Establishment of Primary State Highways". Session Laws of the State of Washington (1937 ed.). Olympia, Washington: Washington State Legislature. p. 934. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
23. Northwest, 1946 (Map). Rand McNally. 1946. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
24. Weingroff, Richard (April 7, 2011). "U.S. 2: Houlton, Maine, to Everett, Washington". Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
25. Rand McNally Road Map of the United States (Map). 1:7,500,000. Rand McNally. 1947. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
26. Wenatchee, 1948 (JPG) (Map). 1:250,000. United States Geological Survey. 1948. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
27. Wenatchee, 1963 (JPG) (Map). 1:250,000. United States Geological Survey. 1963. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
28. Northwest, 1967 (Map). Rand McNally. 1967. Archived from the original on August 30, 2012. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
29. Prahl, C. G. (December 1, 1965). "Identification of State Highways" (PDF). Washington State Highway Commission, Department of Highways. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 17, 2017. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
30. Wenatchee, 1971 (JPG) (Map). 1:250,000. United States Geological Survey. 1971. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
31. Staff (1970). "1970 Annual Traffic Report" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. pp. 31–32. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 17, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
32. Staff (1990). "1990 Annual Traffic Report" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation. p. 112. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
33. Washington House of Representatives (1991). Chapter 342, Laws of 1991: State Highway Routes — Revisions To (House Bill 5801)". Session Laws of the State of Washington (1991 ed.). Olympia, Washington: Washington State Legislature.
34. "SR 285 - George Sellar Bridge - Additional EB Lane - Complete July 2011". Washington State Department of Transportation. July 29, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
35. Irwin, Mike (July 29, 2011). "New bridge walk puts pedestrians high above the flow". The Wenatchee World. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
36. McNiel, Michaell (August 21, 2013). "Eastside bridge work winds down after two years". The Wenatchee World. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
37. Pratt, Christine (August 24, 2012). "Sellar Bridge work taking shape". The Wenatchee World. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
38. "SR 285 - W End George Sellar Bridge - Intersection Improvement". Washington State Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2018.

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