Interstate 5 in Oregon

Interstate 5 in Oregon

 

I-5
Get started Siskiyou Summit
End Portland
Length 308 mi
Length 496 km
Route
  • California1 Old Highway 99
  • 6 Old Siskiyou Highway
  • 11 State Route 99
  • 14 East Ashland
  • 19 North Ashland
  • 21 Talent
  • 24 Phoenix
  • 27 South Medford
  • 30 North Medford
  • 33 Central Point
  • 35 State Route 99
  • 40 Gold Hill
  • 43 State Route 99
  • 45 State Route 99
  • 48 Rogue River
  • 55 Grants Pass
  • 58 Grants Pass
  • 61 Grants Pass Airport
  • 66 Monument Drive
  • 71 Sunny Valley Loop
  • 76 Wolf Creek
  • 78 Speaker Road
  • 80 Glendale
  • 86 Quines Creek Road
  • 88 Azaleas
  • 95 Canyon Creek Forest
  • 98 Canyonville
  • 99 Charles V. Stanton Park
  • 101 Yokum Road
  • 103 Tri City
  • 106 Myrtle Creek
  • 108 Myrtle Creek
  • 110 Boomer Hill Road
  • 112 State Route 99
  • 113 Clarks Branch Road
  • 119 Green
  • 120 State Route 99
  • 121 Roseburg Landfill Road
  • 123 Douglas County Fairgrounds
  • 124 Roseburg
  • 125 North Roseburg
  • 127 North Roseburg
  • 129 Winchester
  • 135 State Route 99
  • 136 Sutherlin
  • 138 Oakland
  • 140 Oakland
  • 142 Metz Hill Road
  • 146 Rice Valley Road
  • 148 Rice Hill
  • 150 Yoncalla
  • 154 Elkhead Road
  • 159 Anlauf Road
  • 160 Salt Springs Road
  • 161 Buck Creek Road
  • 162 Drain
  • 163 Lucky Duck Campground
  • 170 State Route 99
  • 172 Latham
  • 174 Cottage Grove
  • 176 Saginaw
  • 182 Creswell
  • 186 State Route 99
  • 188 Goshen
  • 189 South Eugene
  • 191 Glenwood Boulevard
  • 192 Eugene
  • 194 → Eugene
  • 195 → Beltline
  • 199 Coburg
  • 209 Harrisburg
  • 216 Brownsville
  • 228 Lebanon
  • 233 Albany
  • 234 Albany
  • 235 Willamette Memorial Park
  • 237 Millersburg
  • 238 Jefferson
  • 239 Dever Conner Road
  • 242 Talbot Road
  • 243 Ankeny Hill
  • 244 State Route 164
  • 248 gymnast
  • 249 South Salem
  • 252 Kuebler Boulevard
  • 253 Salem
  • 256 Market Street
  • 258 State Route 99E
  • 260 Salem
  • 263 Brooks
  • 271 Woodburn
  • 278 Aurora
  • 282 Aurora State Airport
  • 283 Wilsonville
  • 286 Elligsen Road
  • 288 → Portland Bypass
  • 289 Tualatin Sherwood Road
  • 290 Boones Ferry Road
  • 291 Carman Drive
  • 292 → Beaverton
  • 293 68th Avenue
  • 294 State Route 99W
  • 295 Capitol Highway
  • 296 Multnomah Boulevard
  • 297 Terwilliger Boulevard
  • 298 Corbett Avenue
  • 299A Ross Island Bridge
  • 299B → Downtown Portland
  • 300 Downtown Portland
  • 301 → Boise
  • 302 Broadway Bridge
  • 302B → Downtown Portland
  • 303 Going Street
  • 304 Rosa Parks Way
  • 305 Lombard Street
  • 306 Columbia Boulevard
  • 307 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
  • 308 Hayden Island Drive
  • Interstate Bridge
  • Washington

Interstate 5 or I -5 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Oregon. The highway forms a north-south route in the west of the state, through the Cascades and Coast Mountains. The largest city on the route is Portland, and the capital, Salem, is also visited. At Siskiyou Summit, the highway has its highest point on the entire I-5. The route in Oregon is 496 kilometers long.

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Travel directions

Southern Oregon

I-5 in extreme south Oregon.

I-5 begins at the California state border, from where Interstate 5 enters California from Redding. The highway here has 2×2 lanes and is a winding route through the Klamath Mountains, the highway rises to the 1,314-meter high Siskiyou Summit, located a few miles from the border with California. The highway then descends to the Rogue Valley, located 400 to 500 meters above sea level. The freeway passes through some small towns here, such as Ashland and Medford. The highway runs on overpasses along the center of Medford. I-5 curves slightly to the west and leads through the narrow and winding valley of the Rogue River to Grants Pass, located at 300 meters altitude. From here, I-5 curves north again.

I-5 then heads north through hilly and wooded areas, with several small towns, but no major towns. This section is regularly quite twisty, resulting in long stretches with low maximum speeds. It is a varied route that goes over a few low mountain passes. The highway does not specifically follow the valley of a river, but crosses the hill country.

Willamette Valley

The dead-straight I-5 through the Willammette Valley between Eugene and Salem.

Then you reach the great Willamette Valley, a north-south oriented valley of the Willamette River. The first city quickly looms, Eugene. The highway runs through the small conurbation, between the centers of Eugene and Springfield. A short section of I-5 through Eugene has 2×3 lanes, elsewhere there are 2×2 lanes. In Eugene, one crosses Interstate 105 and shortly thereafter State Route 569, which is now a freeway.

North of Eugene, a stretch that has no bend for 53 kilometers leads to Albany. The highway leads through the agricultural land of the flat valley and passes through the town of Albany. Further north, I-5 runs through Salem, the Oregon capital. The highway has 2×3 lanes through Salem, with the highway mainly leading through the suburbs. North of Salem, I-5 also has 2×3 lanes to the Portland area.

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Portland

The Marquam Interchange on the south side of Downtown Portland.

One approaches the Portland metropolitan area from the south. The first suburb is Wilsonville, which already has a lot of employment opportunities. Interstate 205 turns off in the Tualatin suburb, which provides an alternate route through the eastern suburbs and suburbs. Not far after that, in the suburb of Tigard, State Route 217 branches off, a freeway to the northwest of the conurbation. The highway has a continuous 2×3 lane and then descends into the Willamette River valley where the city of Portland is located.

Around downtown Portland, traffic has two options, the eastbound route on I-5, or the westbound route on I-405. Via the double-deck Marquam Bridge, I-5 crosses the Willamette River and then heads across the riverbank opposite downtown Portland. At the Oregon Convention Center, follow the interchange with Interstate 84. After that there are only 2×2 lanes until the interchange with I-405. The highway then passes through Portland’s northern boroughs with 2×3 lanes, some with HOV lanes. The Interstate Bridge crosses the Columbia River, which forms the border with Washington state. Washington ‘s Interstate 5then continues through Vancouver towards Seattle.

Interstate 5 in Oregon

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