{"id":992683,"date":"2008-02-26T23:21:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/blog\/?page_id=683"},"modified":"2008-02-27T22:22:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:22:32","slug":"state-route-500-sr-503-to-sr-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=992683","title":{"rendered":"State Route 500, SR 503 to SR 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MP: <\/strong>7<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Padden Pkwy and NE 117th Ave, Vancouver<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the turn onto Padden Pkwy<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>8<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Padden Pkwy and NE 137th Ave, Vancouver<\/p>\n

On this new stretch of roadway WSDOT did a fantastic job signing and they put the reassurance shields on the mileposts which is interesting<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>8.71B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Padden Pkwy and NE 152nd Ave, Vancouver<\/p>\n

Another reassurance shield<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>8.97B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Ward Rd and NE Padden Pkwy, Vancouver<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield as Padden Pkwy merges with Ward Rd. Note that they even sign the “B”<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>9.16B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Ward Rd and NE 162nd Ave, Vancouver<\/p>\n

SR 500 turns south on 162nd to make its trek back to its old alignment along Fourth Plain<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>9.23B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Ward Rd and NE 162nd Ave, Vancouver<\/p>\n

SR 500 turns south down 162nd Ave<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>9.27B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 162nd Ave and NE Ward Rd, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the turn off Ward Rd<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>9.64B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 162nd Ave and NE 78th St, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

Another reassurance shield on one of my nominations for the best signed stretch of highway in Washington<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>10.03B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 162nd Ave and NE Fourth Plain Blvd, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

We finally arrive back at NE Fourth Plain Blvd, the original alignment of SR 500. That took a while<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>10.11B<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 162nd Ave and NE Fourth Plain Blvd, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

SR 500 turns east again<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>8.34<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Fourth Plain Blvd and NE 162 Ave, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the turn. Note the mileposts jump back to their original numbering<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong> 12.42<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 237th Ave and NE 53rd St, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

We finally get out of the urban area and wind our way through the suburban\/rural grid to Camas<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>13.79<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 242nd Ave and NE Dresser Rd, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

SR 500 turns left onto Dresser Rd<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>13.88<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Dresser Rd and NE 242nd Ave, Clark Cty<\/p>\n

Reassurance shield after the turn<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>18.77<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SE Everett St and NE 14th Ave, Camas<\/p>\n

No signage for a while till we get to Camas and SR 500 winds its way through town to SR 14<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong> 18.8<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SE Everett St and NE 14th Ave, Camas<\/p>\n

A reminder to turn left under the yellow sign<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>19.28<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE 3rd Ave and NE Dallas St, Camas<\/p>\n

SR 500 turns right on 3rd to head through downtown<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>19.36<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: NE Dallas St and NE 2nd Ave, Camas<\/p>\n

Continue straight to stay on SR 500. Not sure why have the straight arrow there<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong> 20.17<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SE 6th Ave and SE Union St, Camas<\/p>\n

One final left turn before SR 14<\/p>\n

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MP: <\/strong>20.34<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SE Union St and SR 14, Camas<\/p>\n

Turn left for SR 14 east across the Columbia River Valley to JCT I-82 near Umatilla, Ore or turn right to head into Vancouver<\/p>\n

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W to SR 503<\/a><\/p>\n

W to I-205<\/a>, E to SR 141 SPUR<\/a><\/p>\n

S to SR 500<\/a>, N to SR 502<\/a><\/p>\n

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MP: 7 Location: NE Padden Pkwy and NE 117th Ave, Vancouver Reassurance shield after the turn onto Padden Pkwy   MP: 8 Location: NE Padden Pkwy and NE 137th Ave, Vancouver On this new stretch of roadway WSDOT did a fantastic job signing and they put the reassurance shields on the mileposts which is interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}