The Dalles: I-84 at Celilo
The landscape around Celilo is a dry, steep-sided reach of the Columbia River Gorge, which has shaped both the road corridor and local life. Interstate 84 follows Oregon’s bank here, while the Columbia forms the boundary with Washington and cuts through the eastern end of the Gorge. Celilo is inseparable from Celilo Falls, once a major Indigenous fishing and trading place in the Pacific Northwest. Native communities gathered at the rapids for generations to catch salmon; the falls were inundated in 1957 after completion of The Dalles Dam. The river corridor remains a working passage through basalt hills, with highway and rail routes serving communities along this long-established route.
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The Dalles is best known within Oregon for its pivotal place in the Oregon Trail story. Set on the Columbia River at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge, the city developed where emigrants arriving from the east faced the final river passage toward the Willamette Valley. Fort Dalles, established by the U.S. Army in 1850, remains a central reference point in local history. The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum interprets the region’s Indigenous, river and trail heritage, while the waterfront places the town in a working river corridor. Discover how The Dalles belongs to the wider Columbia River Gorge by browsing nearby webcams.
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