This Is The Huge Lake That Forms Upstream From Brownlee Dam.
“Farther on we cross a dam and leave the canyon into some high semidesert country.“(Cont.Next)
Idaho Power Company, Woodhead Recreation Area, Brownlee Reservoir & Dam, Border of ID & OR. The Narrator says they “cross a dam“ and the next sentence says they are in Oregon. This specifically implies they must have crossed the Snake River (and deep canyon) which is an unavoidable and major N-S barrier that forms the Eastern border of Oregon. These words also imply that in 1968 they used a dam and not a bridge. We are led to believe their 1968 highway crossed on top of a dam. I traveled West from the “Brownlee Camp Ground“ to the Oregon towns of Baker and Unity, which are the next mentioned ZMM towns. I used the only reasonable and available route to connect up these ZMM landmarks and was surprised to find I crossed the Snake River on a bridge one mile south of Brownlee Dam This additional distance is not shown on my 1964 RMcN. Well what about dams in the area? The two obvious Snake River dams in this vicinity were the Brownlee Dam and the Ox Bow Dam. The Brownlee Dam has a roadway part way over it. But this abruptly ends at the edge of a huge and deep spillway. Perhaps there once was a bridge over the spillway? I studied Topozone Maps for areas surrounding both dams, since they show all roads, new and old. According to these maps, the Oregon side of Brownlee Dam has a connecting road on the West side of the river. The maps show Ox Bow Dam has connecting roads, but these are not accessible from Idaho Rt 71, the road that goes by the Brownlee Camp Ground. I provisionally conclude that the Narrator means he crossed over into Oregon (and thus over the Snake River) either on a spillway bridge (since removed) or near a dam rather than actually on a dam.Detour in new browser frame for http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.8389&lon=-116.9035&datum=nad83
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