Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett
By WithBy
Categories: Society & Culture, Places & Travel
The history, landmarks, and stories along US 2 westbound from Gold Bar to Everett, timed to the drive interchange by interchange. Spoken by Sal and Peggy.
10 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Homeacres Road — The Long Trestle
Sal: Between Interstate Five and Homeacres Road. Sal: Between Everett and Ebey Island, the highway rides the Hewitt Avenue Trestle across the Snohomish River delta. The original wooden and concrete causeway opened on January 15, 1936, linking Everett with central Snohomish County. Sal: The top…
- State Route Two-Oh-Four — The Sunken Island
Sal: Between Homeacres Road and State Route Two-Oh-Four. Sal: Out on the trestle, the road crosses Ebey Island, a large island in the middle of the Snohomish River estuary. Much of the island has sunk under drainage and farming and now sits below sea level, and it is managed as a diking district…
- Bickford Avenue — A Vowel Drifts
Sal: Between State Route Two-Oh-Four and Bickford Avenue. Sal: At the east end of the trestle, State Route Two-Oh-Four connects this highway to Lake Stevens. The hill at this junction is Cavalero Hill, named for Dominic Cavelero, an Italian immigrant who reached the United States in 1883 and…
- State Route Nine — The Fourteen-Year Bypass
Sal: Between Bickford Avenue and State Route Nine. Sal: Near Bickford Avenue, this highway is the Snohomish bypass, a two-lane expressway that loops north and east of the historic downtown. Bickford Avenue itself used to carry US 2, and it is named for a local car dealership. Sal: It finally…
- Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast — Cadyville on the Pilchuck
Sal: Between State Route Nine and Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast. Sal: State Route Nine crosses here on its route between Woodinville and Lake Stevens. Just south of the interchange, the city of Snohomish sits on the Snohomish River. Settlers founded the town in 1859 and called it Cadyville, after…
- State Route Five-Twenty-Two — Fairgrounds and the Farm
Sal: Between Eighty-Eighth Street Southeast and State Route Five-Twenty-Two. Sal: This stretch runs through farm country on the Snohomish River valley floor, between the city of Snohomish and Monroe. In 1929, more than 400 railroad cars of lettuce were shipped from Snohomish County, each worth…
- State Route Two-Oh-Three — Tye City and Wales
Sal: Between State Route Five-Twenty-Two and State Route Two-Oh-Three. Sal: State Route Five-Twenty-Two ends here, the expressway that links Monroe with Bothell and Seattle. The town first centered a mile away at Park Place, until the Great Northern's final survey in 1891 put its tracks across…
- Sultan — Condensery and Reformatory
Sal: Between State Route Two-Oh-Three and Sultan. Sal: State Route Two-Oh-Three follows the Snoqualmie River toward Fall City and North Bend, meeting US 2 at Lewis Street in Monroe. In 1905, a new bridge carried Lewis Street over the Skykomish River. Monroe has three rivers on its southern edge…
- Startup — Seventeen Saloons
Sal: Between Sultan and Startup. Sal: At Sultan, the Sultan River joins the Skykomish at the foot of the town's First Street. Before American settlement, the Skykomish people maintained a permanent village and a fishery at the river junction. Both the river and the town honor Skykomish chief…
- Gold Bar — Mail and Mountains
Sal: Between Startup and Gold Bar. Sal: This is the upper Skykomish Valley. Pioneer F. M. Sparling homesteaded the area in the 1880s, and after he married in 1889 he sold his claim to William Wait. Wait filed a townsite plat on March 22, 1890, naming the settlement Wallace. The name proved…
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