Snoqualmie Pass Throwback Thursday

The WSDOT just posted this to their Snoqualimie Pass Twitter feed.

Car Crossing Old Snoqualmie Pass

These historic references really delight me. It got me thinking about this road’s history and importance.

What we now call Snoqualmie Pass was first utilized by the region’s indigenous tribes. Then, in 1867, the first incarnation of a road was completed. What we see above, though, as it looks like a Model A, I would expect it’s from the late 1920s to early 1930s. The entity that we think of nowadays as Snoqualmie Pass really came to being during the 1950s and the creation of the Interstate System.

Here are a few links to explore this further: