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75-629: US 2 begins in Everett at an intersection with State Route 529 (SR 529) in Everett and travels east to an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5). The highway travels over the Cascade Range through Stevens Pass , connecting the western and eastern parts of the state. US 2 becomes concurrent with US 97 from Peshastin to Orondo , crossing the Columbia River in Wenatchee on

150-612: A partial cloverleaf interchange with Broadway, which was SR 529 before 1991 and US 99, and Marine View Drive, which continues southeast to I-5 at exit 195. The highway travels over the Snohomish River onto Smith Island, part of the Delta neighborhood of Everett that is named after the delta of the Snohomish River located to the southwest. The Snohomish River crossing was the busiest segment of SR 529 in 2007, with an estimated daily average of 33,000 motorists. Crossing

225-559: A bypass of the congested SR 528 corridor, which is often blocked by trains. The project is planned to concurrently occur with rehabilitation work on both spans of the Steamboat Slough Bridge and the northbound span of the Snohomish River Bridge; the latter bridge will be closed for four months in late 2023 for WSDOT to conduct the work in compliance with United States Coast Guard regulations. The entire highway

300-826: A canyon that drained to the Columbia near the current mouth of Moses Coulee. These side drainages are still visible today along the coulee walls as truncated streambeds, interspersed with gable-like highlands. The Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran Glacier moved down the Okanogan River valley, covering 500 mi of the Waterville Plateau and blocked the ancient route of the Columbia River, backing up water to create Glacial Lake Columbia and Lake Spokane . Initially water discharged from Lake Columbia by running up through

375-675: A diamond interchange with 88th Street. The two-lane road continues southeast along the Scenic Subdivision of the Northern Transcon , a BNSF rail line, into Monroe . The highway travels past the Evergreen State Fairgrounds and intersects SR 522 before entering downtown Monroe. US 2, now part of a National Scenic Byway named the Stevens Pass Greenway, continues through the city of Monroe and forms

450-531: A freeway along the Stevens Pass corridor. In 2023, the Sultan city government endorsed plans to widen US 2 to four lanes and replace several intersections with roundabouts. In addition to the freeway expansion, WSDOT is considering a total replacement of the westbound Hewitt Avenue Trestle that would cost between $ 750 million to $ 1 billion. One of the options in the early feasibility study conducted in 2017 included

525-653: A road between the two cities across the Snohomish River delta was needed. At the time, the only route between the two cities was a winding road traveled around the northeast side of the delta. The first bridge across the delta was opened the following year, connecting Everett to Smith Island. In 1913, the Pacific Highway was added to the state highway system and used Broadway (former SR 529) in Everett and State Avenue in Marysville to travel between Seattle and

600-412: A roundabout. From Monroe to Gold Bar , US 2 would be expanded to a four-lane highway, with a roundabout connecting the highway to the city of Gold Bar, and become a two-lane highway with wider shoulder lanes to Skykomish. Seasonal traffic congestion in the Sultan area, which causes backups that overflow onto side streets, have inspired proposals to build an additional bypass, a two-street couplet , or

675-528: A series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume. This is expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT), which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2013, WSDOT calculated that the busiest section of US 2 within Washington was the Hewitt Avenue Trestle above the Snohomish River east of Everett , carrying over 76,000 vehicles, while

750-549: A short connector to downtown Wenatchee, and US 97 Alternate , an alternate route to Chelan , in Sunnyslope before crossing the Richard Odabashian Bridge over the Columbia River and into Douglas County . The two highways continue east into East Wenatchee and turn north at the western terminus of SR 28 . US 2 and US 97 continue north between the Columbia River to the west and Badger Mountain to

825-591: A transfer of the Ebey Slough Bridge to local control in the late 1980s, but dropped the proposal. In May 1983, the location of a new home port for the United States Navy was narrowed down to Everett and Seattle, as proposed by Senator Henry M. Jackson ( D ), who died later that September. Everett was selected in April 1984 and the groundbreaking ceremony was held on November 9, 1987. On September 5, 1991,

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900-613: A vehicle toll, which sparked public outcry on social media. The study also lists an increased gas tax , federal grants, and public-private partnerships as potential revenue sources for the project. Washington State Route 529 State Route 529 ( SR 529 , officially the Yellow Ribbon Highway ) is a Washington state highway that connects the cities of Everett and Marysville . The 7.88-mile-long (12.68 km) roadway extends north from an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), numbered exit 193, past

975-548: Is in Snohomish County . SR 529 also has a 0.20-mile (0.32 km) long spur route in Everett that extends from SR 529 to Interstate 5 (I-5) northbound, numbered exit 194. Since exit 193, the southern terminus of SR 529, only serves I-5 southbound, the spur route was established in 1991 to complete the interchange. Exit 194 also serves U.S. Route 2 (US 2), which terminates at SR 529. In 2007,

1050-415: Is now dry, but during glacial periods, large outburst floods with discharges greater than 600,000 m /s (21,000,000 cu ft/s) carved the channel. While it's clear that glacial floodwaters passed through and contributed to the erosion of Moses Coulee, the age of those waters, thus the origins of the coulee are less clear. No clear connection between the head of the coulee and major flood routes to

1125-652: Is signed as a spur route of US 395. The highway continues west of Mead and intersects SR 206 , a road serving Mount Spokane State Park , before becoming a four-lane divided highway parallel the Kooteani River Subdivision of the BNSF Northern Transcon. US 2 travels north along the Little Spokane River through Colbert and Chattaroy before leaving Spokane County and entering Pend Oreille County . The divided highway ends at

1200-530: Is the location of the Everett Public Library , listed on the National Register of Historic Places , and Marine View Drive, where the road turns north to parallel a BNSF Railway route and serve the Everett waterfront, which includes Naval Station Everett and Jetty Island , accessed via a ferry near 10th Street. Leaving the waterfront, SR 529 parallels the Snohomish River southeast to

1275-482: The 2020 Washington Labor Day fires more than 400,000 acres of shrub-steppe was burned including 3,000 acres of Moses Coulee Preserve in just half a day. The Nature Conservancy has established the Moses Coulee Preserve, which is a 3,588-acre (14.52 km ) contiguous, intact shrub-steppe habitat. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Jameson Lake near the head of Moses Coulee. It provide habitat for

1350-603: The Canada–US border . The Pacific Highway between Everett and Marysville, named the Vernon Road, was paved in 1916 and paid by a county road bond issue. The highway was later signed as State Road 1 in 1923, which became the Washington segment of U.S. Route 99 (US 99) during the creation of the United States Numbered Highways in 1926. Since the bridges over the Snohomish River delta weren't complete at

1425-683: The Columbia Plateau , intersecting SR 172 at Farmer . US 2 becomes concurrent with SR 17 as it descends into the Grand Coulee south of Banks Lake , becoming part of the Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway . The byway travels off US 2 and onto SR 155 east of Coulee City at Fordair , continuing north through Grant County towards the Grand Coulee Dam . US 2 travels east into Lincoln County between

1500-726: The Columbia River Basalt Group , a large igneous province that lies across parts of the states of Washington , Oregon , and Idaho in the United States of America . During late Miocene and early Pliocene times, one of the larger flood basalts ever to appear on the earth 's surface engulfed about 163,700 km (63,000 mile ) of the Pacific Northwest, forming a large igneous province with an estimated volume of 174,300 km . Eruptions were most vigorous from 17—14 million years ago, when over 99% of

1575-668: The Ebey Slough . US 2 turns southeast at the east end of the trestle in Cavalero at an interchange with SR 204 , which serves Lake Stevens . The limited-access road travels around the city of Snohomish , intersecting Bickford Avenue in an at-grade intersection and SR 9 in a diamond interchange . US 2 turns south and crosses over the Pilchuck River and the Centennial Trail before its limited-access road ends at

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1650-754: The Everett Memorial Stadium , home of the Everett AquaSox , Everett Avenue (current SR 529) and the Everett Community College to join current SR 529 at the Marine View Drive interchange. Between 2005 and 2008, exit 192 on I-5 was reconstructed. A new flyover ramp from I-5 northbound to Broadway northbound was added and the 41st Street interchange was transformed into a single-point urban interchange . As early as 1915, citizens of both Everett and Marysville proposed that

1725-668: The Idaho state line at the northern terminus of SR 41 in Newport and ID-41 in Oldtown, Idaho . US 2 follows the route of several wagon roads and early state highways that themselves followed the route of the Skykomish River and the Great Northern Railway , a transcontinental railroad that was completed in 1893. A wagon road from Snohomish to Skykomish was completed in

1800-531: The Idaho state line in Newport via a short branch route. US 10 was relocated to a southern route in 1939, crossing the Columbia River at Vantage , and the former route was replaced by US 10 Alternate the following year. A proposal from representatives of the highway departments of Idaho and Washington to extend US 2 to Everett was considered by the AASHO's U.S. Route Numbering Committee in January 1946, but

1875-441: The Pacific Highway in 1913, which became State Road 1 in 1923 and US 99 in 1926, but the cutoff actually opened in 1927. State Road 1 became Primary State Highway 1 (PSH 1) in 1937 and PSH 1 became US 99 in 1964. After US 99 was decommissioned, SR 529 was established in 1971. Naval Station Everett was opened in 1991 and SR 529 was realigned on Everett Avenue and Marine View Drive to serve

1950-630: The Richard Odabashian Bridge . The highway continues east across the Columbia Plateau in Central Washington and crosses the Grand Coulee while concurrent with SR 17 west of Coulee City. The highway travels into Spokane concurrent with I-90 and US 395 and leaves both highways continuing northeast to Newport. US 2 leaves Washington at the Idaho state line, located along SR 41 in Newport and Idaho State Highway 41 (ID-41) in Oldtown, Idaho . The present route of US 2 follows several wagon roads that were built in

2025-678: The Senator Sam C. Guess Memorial Bridge before splitting into the one-way pairing of Division and Ruby streets. Division Street continues north past the NorthTown Mall and the eastern terminus of SR 291 at Francis Street before US 2 and US 395 split. US 2 travels northeast through Country Homes on the Newport Highway to an interchange with the North Spokane Corridor , an incomplete freeway bypass of Spokane that

2100-505: The Snohomish area showed the current and former routes in Everett already complete. By 1898, citizens of both Everett and Marysville were interested in a road that would traverse the Snohomish River delta. A 1911 map of the Mount Vernon area showed the route in Marysville, but the bridges between Everett and Marysville were railroad bridges. The roads were combined with other highways to form

2175-773: The Tye River past the town of Skykomish and the Cascade Tunnel towards Stevens Pass . The pass, located 4,061 feet (1,238 m) above sea level, is also home to the Stevens Pass Ski Area and a trailhead for the Pacific Crest Trail while serving as the point in which US 2 crosses into the Wenatchee National Forest in Chelan County . The highway continues east down Nason Creek to Coles Corner ,

2250-458: The Columbia River formed Glacial Lake Columbia and Lake Spokane , larger lakes than Lake Roosevelt, which is currently backed up in the same location behind the Grand Coulee Dam. A precursor to glacial-flood-cut Moses Coulee existed prior to the glacial floods as a drainage basin with a number of side streams, draining the southern portion of the plateau. These streams had combined into

2325-481: The Columbia River in 1975, while the former alignment was designated as SR 285 in 1977. The present two-lane expressway north and east of Snohomish was approved in 1969 and opened in October 1983; it was originally intended to also include an unfinished bypass of Monroe . US 97 had its concurrency with US 2 extended from Sunnyslope to Orondo along the east side of the Columbia River in 1987 after US 97

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2400-567: The Cordilleran Ice Sheet reaching as far south as the town of Withrow. Evidence for glaciation on the Waterville Plateau includes polished and striated bedrock, glacial erratics , drumlinoid topography, eskers , moraines , meltwater channels, and glacial till . The Withrow Moraine complex marks the maximum southern extent of the Okanogan Lobe, and a series of recessional moraine complexes represent retreating ice margins. Ice damming of

2475-480: The Snohomish River delta were completed in 1954; however, the expansion excluded the Ebey Slough Bridge, which remained single-spanned. US 99 fully replaced PSH 1 during the 1964 highway renumbering . Interstate 5 (I-5) later replaced US 99 between 1966 and 1970. SR 529 was created in 1971 and ran from what was SR 526 until 1969, now 41st Street, north on old US 99 (Broadway) to SR 528 in Marysville. The state government considered

2550-599: The Steamboat Slough as a freeway, SR 529 interchanges with I-5 northbound as exit 198 and enters Marysville after crossing the Ebey Slough. Now named State Avenue, the street passes through the waterfront area of Downtown Marysville and the Marysville Mall before ending at the intersection with Fourth Street, signed as SR 528 while State Avenue continues north to Smokey Point . Prior to 1991, SR 529

2625-487: The amendment did not make it into the final bill. The Washington state highway system was changed to its current "sign route system" beginning in January 1963 with a state highway renumbering . Under the new system, Interstate highways, U.S. routes, and state routes replaced the primary and secondary highways and were codified under the Revised Code of Washington in 1970. US 2 was re-routed around various cities over

2700-460: The basalt was released. Less extensive eruptions continued from 14—6 million years ago. These lava flows have been extensively exposed by the erosion resulting from the Missoula Floods , which laid bare many layers of the basalt flows on the edges of the plateau along the course of Moses Coulee. Pleistocene glaciers advanced onto the Waterville Plateau, with the Okanogan Lobe of

2775-547: The completion of the Hewitt Avenue Trestle and a bypass of Snohomish . A series of projects is planned to improve the US ;2 corridor between Snohomish and Skykomish by expanding the highway near various cities and the completion of a bypass around Monroe . US 2 is defined by the Washington State Legislature as SR 2, part of the Revised Code of Washington as § 47.17.005 . Every year, WSDOT conducts

2850-402: The early 2000s, WSDOT began planning a series of 56 projects to improve the US 2 corridor between Snohomish and Skykomish, where the highway is two lanes wide and has been the site of over 2,600 collisions between 1999 and 2007 that caused 47 fatalities. A study, conducted by WSDOT in 2007, divided the corridor into four segments, each with a specialized development plan. The study suggested

2925-523: The east, passing the Rocky Reach Dam and its reservoir, Lake Entiat before reaching Orondo . US 2 and US 97 split at Orondo, with US 97 continuing north along the Columbia River towards Chelan and US 2 traveling east up Pine Canyon onto the Waterville Plateau . The highway travels through the town of Waterville via several turns on city streets before heading due east across

3000-503: The expansion of the limited-access highway from Snohomish to the western city limits of Monroe to four lanes, including an interchange at Bickford Avenue that was later completed in September 2013. A wider median with rumble strips was added to some sections of US 2 between Snohomish and Monroe in 2019. WSDOT plans to move US 2 onto a northern bypass of Monroe, which would avoid the business district and intersect SR 522 with

3075-464: The head of Grand Coulee and down through Foster Coulee to rejoin the Columbia River. As the glacier moved further south, Foster Coulee was cut off and the Columbia River then discharged through Moses Coulee, which runs southward slightly to the east of the ancient and current course of the Columbia. As the Okanogan lobe grew, it blocked Moses Coulee as well; the Columbia found the next lowest route through

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3150-540: The highway had a daily average of 17,000 motorists. The entire spur is in Everett , Snohomish County . Moses Coulee Moses Coulee is a canyon in the Waterville plateau region of Douglas County, Washington . Moses Coulee is the second-largest and westernmost canyon of the Channeled Scablands , located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the west of the larger Grand Coulee . This water channel

3225-466: The intersection of Hewitt Avenue and Maple Street, signed as SR 529 , and its westbound lanes ending at the intersection of California Street and Maple Street (SR 529). The highway travels east onto the Hewitt Avenue Trestle, crossing the Snohomish River after an interchange with I-5 . The four-lane trestle continues east across Ebey Island , intersecting Homeacres Road before crossing

3300-596: The late 1880s, while another wagon road along the Wenatchee River from Leavenworth to Sunnyslope was completed by 1904. The modern-day route of US 2 between Snohomish and Monroe was completed as a county wagon road in 1904. The state of Washington began maintaining State Road 7 in 1909, traveling from Peshastin to Spokane on what would become the Sunset Highway and US 2. The easternmost segment of US 2 within Washington, from Spokane to Newport ,

3375-512: The late 19th century by local railroad companies, including the Stevens Pass Highway along the Skykomish River . The state of Washington began maintaining sections of what would become US 2 with the extension of State Road 7 in 1909, from Peshastin to Spokane on the Sunset Highway and later State Road 2 . In addition to State Road 2, State Road 23 was created in 1915, traveling north from Spokane to Newport, and

3450-611: The least busiest section of US 2 is in Moses Coulee , carrying 630 vehicles. The entire route of US 2 within Washington is designated as part of the National Highway System , classifying it as important to the national economy, defense, and mobility. WSDOT designates US 2 as a Highway of Statewide Significance, which includes highways that connect major communities in the state of Washington . US 2 begins in downtown Everett, with its eastbound lanes starting at

3525-739: The main water gap in the Saddle Mountains, Sentinel Gap . Although the Columbia River flowed only for a short period through Moses Coulee, this period included one or more of the tremendous flows from the Missoula Floods . As the Okanogan lobe melted, the upper portions of Moses Coulee were littered with clear evidence of its passing in the Withrow Moraine . The glacier left behind a blanket of glacial till, up to 50 feet (15 m) thick in places. This glacial till, made up of clay, silt, sand, gravel, cobblestones, and erratic boulders, covers most of

3600-434: The new naval base. The former route of the highway, now named Broadway, had an interchange with I-5 that was reconstructed between 2005 and 2008 to include high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes and now includes a single-point urban interchange with 41st Street. SR 529 begins at exit 193 on I-5 , a half-diamond interchange with Pacific Avenue in downtown Everett. The highway turns north on Maple Street and travels along

3675-407: The new navy base was opened and SR 529 was shortened and rerouted to serve the new base, later named Naval Station Everett . A new spur route to serve as a connector between SR 529 and I-5 northbound in 1991. The highway was declared the Yellow Ribbon Highway in November 2009 by the Legislature after a successful campaign led by Everett resident Nathan Olson. The sign unveiling ceremony

3750-435: The next several decades onto limited-access highways to reduce congestion, beginning with the construction of the current westbound Hewitt Avenue Trestle east of Everett, which opened on April 8, 1969. The existing wooden trestle was used by eastbound traffic until it was replaced by a new bridge in 2002. US 2 was routed north of Wenatchee onto the Olds Station Bridge , renamed in 1991 to honor Richard Odabashian , over

3825-463: The north, east, or west is known. Some researchers propose that floods from glacial Lake Missoula formed Moses Coulee, while others suggest that subglacial floods from the Okanogan Lobe incised the canyon. The mouth of Moses Coulee discharges into the Columbia River . Two National Natural Landmarks were established in 1986 for features, notable as the best examples of their kind, in and around Moses Coulee. The Great Gravel Bar of Moses Coulee , on

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3900-403: The northern terminus of SR 203 . The highway leaves the city while parallel to the Skykomish River and travels through the cities of Sultan and Gold Bar . US 2 begins following the South Fork Skykomish River at Index into the Cascade Range , crossing into King County near the town of Baring . The highway enters Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and continues east along

3975-412: The northern terminus of US 195 , which travels south towards Pullman and Lewiston, Idaho . US 2 and US 395 split from I-90 and travel into Downtown Spokane on the one-way pair of Browne and Division streets, serving the Spokane Intermodal Center and Spokane Convention Center before reaching Riverfront Park . Division Street crosses the Spokane River and the Centennial Trail on

4050-407: The only Pleistocene terminal moraine in the Columbia Plateau biophysiographic province. ... They are also the only such glacial features in the world to show a clear geological relationship to catastrophic flooding." The canyon is named for Chief Moses (1829–99). Moses Coulee cuts into the Waterville Plateau, which lies in the northwest corner of the Columbia River Plateau . The plateau is part of

4125-412: The region which was eroded to become the modern Grand Coulee . Flowing across the current Grand Coulee and Dry Falls regions, the ice age Columbia then entered the Quincy Basin and joined Crab Creek, following Crab Creek’s course southward past the Frenchman Hills and turning west to run along the north face of the Saddle Mountains and rejoin the previous and modern course of the Columbia River just above

4200-401: The side of I-5, intersecting the western terminus of US 2 at Hewitt and California avenues near Judd and Black Park. The roadway then west to become Everett Avenue, which continues east to I-5 as SR 529 Spur. Everett Avenue then travels west through Downtown Everett and intersects various streets including Broadway, which was once SR 529 and US 99 , Hoyt Avenue, which

4275-488: The southern terminus of SR 207 , which serves Lake Wenatchee . US 2 travels due south along the Wenatchee River valley through Leavenworth before it begins a 27-mile-long (43 km) concurrency with US 97 at a diamond interchange east of Peshastin . US 2 and US 97 travel together on a four-lane highway on the north side of the Wenatchee River heading southeast past Cashmere heading towards Wenatchee . The roadway intersects SR 285 ,

4350-412: The southern terminus of SR 211 , located west of Diamond Lake . US 2 continues northeast along the Little Spokane River and enters the city of Newport , splitting into a one-way pair on Washington and Union avenues. The two streets travel north through the city to the eastern terminus of SR 20 and turn east onto Walnut Street and the International Selkirk Loop , where US 2 crosses

4425-514: The speed limit on the bridge was slowed to 25 mph (40 km/h) and three closures to replace gusset plates were scheduled. WSDOT had already planned to rehabilitate the other Steamboat Slough bridge as well as both Snohomish River crossings later in the year. The I-5 and SR 529 interchange in Marysville is planned to be expanded by 2024 with the addition of two ramps and a roundabout that would provide complete access in all directions. The project would also provide traffic to Marysville with

4500-407: The time of planning, US 99 used present-day US 2 , SR 204 and Sunnyside Boulevard to connect Everett and Marysville. The bridges were completed in 1926 and opened on August 23, 1927, after the creation of US 99. State Road 1 was replaced by Primary State Highway 1 (PSH 1) in the Primary state highways , which was created in 1937. A second set of bridges crossing

4575-501: The town boundary. The highway passes Fairchild Air Force Base and becomes a four-lane arterial street through Airway Heights approaching Spokane . US 2 enters the city of Spokane as a four-lane freeway northeast of Spokane International Airport and intersects Airport Way before beginning its 3.82-mile-long (6.15 km) concurrency with I-90 and US 395 at a partial cloverleaf interchange . I-90, US 2 and US 395 travel east into Downtown Spokane and intersects

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4650-408: The towns of Hartline and Almira and becomes concurrent with SR 21 in Wilbur for several city blocks. The highway parallels the Columbia River Subdivision of the BNSF Northern Transcon through Bachelor Prairie towards Davenport , where it intersects the termini of SR 28 and SR 25 . US 2 travels into Reardan concurrent with SR 231 and enters Spokane County east of

4725-500: The upper coulee. Today Moses Coulee supports an excellent example of a shrub-steppe ecoregion. Vegetation includes sagebrush , rabbitbrush , greasewood , hopsage , bitterbrush , bunchgrass , buckwheat and other vegetation once common to most of the Columbia Plateau, however it is vulnerable to the same forces that are destroying shrub-steppe and big sagebrush throughout the western US such as development, wildfires, invasion by non-native annual species, and overgrazing. During

4800-401: The western edge of Moses Coulee where US Highway 2 crosses the coulee, is described as "the largest and best example of a pendant river bar formed by catastrophic glacial outburst floods that swept across the Columbia Plateau prior to the last Pleistocene glaciation." Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field "contains the best examples of drumlins and the most illustrative segment of

4875-542: The western terminus of U.S. Route 2 (US 2), its spur route , Downtown Everett and Naval Station Everett to cross the Snohomish River onto Smith Island. After crossing the Steamboat Slough, the road encounters an interchange with I-5, numbered exit 198, before crossing the Ebey Slough and entering Marysville. In Marysville, SR 529 ends at SR 528 . Before being realigned in 1991, SR 529 started at exit 192 of I-5 and traveled north as Broadway through Downtown Everett to Marysville. A map published in 1895 of

4950-532: Was 1.19 miles (1.92 km) shorter and extended from I-5 and 41st Street (exit 192) to Marysville via Broadway. The former and current routes both used the same route from the Marine View Drive intersection to Marysville. The former southern terminus was a large interchange with I-5 and 41st Street, which was SR 526 until 1969, that had an underpass under I-5 southbound for a northbound I-5 offramp to Broadway and connections to I-5 northbound were accessed via 41st Street prior to 2005. Broadway continued north past

5025-539: Was added to the state highway system in 1915 as State Road 23 and renamed to the Pend Oreille Highway two years later. State Road 7 was renumbered to State Road 2 , part of an east–west highway connecting Seattle to Spokane . The Stevens Pass Highway was opened on July 11, 1925, and traveled from Everett along the Skykomish River and over Stevens Pass towards Leavenworth . The Tumwater Canyon section northwest of Leavenworth opened to traffic on September 1, 1929, and later straightened in 1937. The highway

5100-404: Was attended by WSDOT, elected officials, Naval Station Everett and community members on November 5, 2009. The 4-lane fixed bridge over Ebey Slough that connects SR 529 from Everett to Marysville was fully completed in 2013, replacing a two-lane swing bridge that was 87 years old. The southbound Steamboat Slough bridge was rebuilt in 1993. Following the discovery of additional wear in 2023,

5175-467: Was moved onto the former route of SR 151 . The Stevens Pass Greenway, which became a National Forest Scenic Byway on April 14, 1992, was re-designated as a National Scenic Byway on September 22, 2005. Within Newport, US 2 had an unsigned spur route that traveled on the southbound lanes of ID-41 on the Idaho state line until 1997, when SR 41 was created to avoid confusion. The intersection between US 2 and US 97 east of Peshastin

5250-429: Was re-routed in 1939 and replaced by US 10 Alternate , which was routed across Stevens Pass in the 1940s and itself replaced by US 2 in 1946. The primary state highways were replaced by the current state route system during the 1964 state highway renumbering , and US 2 replaced its three concurrent routes. US 2 underwent conversions to limited-access highways during the next several decades, including

5325-409: Was renumbered to State Road 6 in 1923. The Stevens Pass Highway was transferred to state maintenance in 1931 with the establishment of State Road 15 , traveling from Everett to Peshastin. The United States Highway System was adopted on November 11, 1926, and designated US 10 on the future route of US 2 from Peshastin to Spokane and US 195 from Spokane to Newport. US 10

5400-452: Was replaced by a new diamond interchange completed in October 2008 as part of general improvements to the two highways' concurrency from Peshastin to Sunnyslope. The current interchange between US 2 and the North Spokane Corridor , a spur route of US 395 , was opened in November 2011 to coincide with the opening of the northernmost 5.5 miles (8.85 km) of the future freeway. In

5475-539: Was signed as US 10 from Peshastin to Spokane and US 195 from Spokane to Newport, co-signed with State Road 2 and State Road 6, respectively. The Washington primary and secondary state highway system was adopted by the Washington State Legislature on March 17, 1937, and the three highways that comprise the present route of US 2 were included in the system as Primary State Highway 15 (PSH 15) from Everett to Peshastin, PSH 2 from Peshastin to Spokane, and PSH 6 from Spokane to

5550-616: Was transferred to state maintenance from the Department of Highways in 1931 as State Road 15 . The United States Highway System was adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) on November 11, 1926, and included a shorter US 2, traveling from Bonners Ferry, Idaho to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , and several routes along the modern route of US 2 in Washington. The corridor of US 2

5625-411: Was vetoed. The proposal resurfaced during the committee's meeting on December 20, 1946, and was approved as a replacement of US 10 Alternate from Everett to Bonners Ferry and US 195 from Spokane to Newport. The yet-unbuilt highway across Stevens Pass was also proposed in 1956 as a tunnel that would be funded as an addition to the new Interstate Highway System by Senator Warren G. Magnuson , but

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