Talk:Canyon Road

Assessment
This is not a stub, but it is also not a B class article. The entire "Route" section is unsourced, there are not any distances (this is a road), there is not really a lead section, and the history is missing 1856 to current (that's about 150 out of 156 years). One of those would not prevent it from being a B class, but four of those do. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:41, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Remark About Zoo Access Not Entirely Correct
The part of the article that says the road may have diverted at one time to go past the front door of the Zoo is inaccurate. The road in front of the Zoo gates (the one that goes away from the freeway at the Zoo exit) is known as SW Knights Boulevard. I believe, if someone was able to look into it, that Canyon Road never climbed the hill to the Zoo. The property, however, is addressed to Canyon Rd (4001 SW Canyon Rd), presumably because of its large frontage along Canyon, so that may be the source of that misconception.

I'm sorry that I don't have a single source that I can point to on that bit of knowledge; its more of a composite made up of years of reading about Portland geography.

The frontage road that runs along the north side of the freeway from there to Sylvan is called SW Canyon Ct; the original Canyon Road was built over by the current freeway, which I believe is still called Canyon Road for planning and postal purposes. ZehnKatzen (talk) 03:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Look at this. It seems clearly labeled.  Perhaps it's in error, but that's what I was basing the mention in the article on.  —EncMstr (talk) 03:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Understood. My information is based on PortlandMaps.com, which I checked after seeing the Google Maps version and with strong recollections from the many visits I've had over my lifetime to the Zoo. On Portlandmaps.com, if you put in the address 4001 SW Canyon Rd and pan around with the map, you'll see that "SW Knight Blvd" (strangely, not Knights) goes up from Canyon Road and snakes to the right in front of the Childrens Museum (former OMSI). The road that goes along the front of the road is called "SW Zoo Road".


 * I suppose it's not that big a deal, though. If you zoom out far enough on the PortlandMaps.com display, the road marked "Knight Blvd" becomes "Canyon Rd". I'm pretty sure that was never an actual historic part of Canyon Rd, but I don't have anything to hand to back that up, I'll admit.


 * Samuel John Klein (talk) 17:44, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

How About Mentioning SW Jefferson Road?
I think it might be interesting to further elaborate on the beginning of Canyon Road by mentioning that the transition point between SW Jefferson Street and SW Canyon Road used to be a fork where, if one bore to the right, Jefferson Street became SW Jefferson Road, that had a microneighborhood. Jefferson Road ran for about 1/3rd of a mile down along the south side of SW Canyon Road and was essentially the stub end of SW Jefferson Street in that area. The neighborhood saw its end when the MAX westside tunnel was constructed; that area was used as a base and staginig area for Bore-regard, the tunnel boring machine, and the whole area was bought up can cleared off for that purpose. ZehnKatzen (talk) 03:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't quite understand this description, but it does point to a road that vanished here decades ago. (I'm basing the following on my own personal memory, but a search thru the local newspapers ought to provide reliable citations confirming what I remember.) This road used to run from the end of SW Jefferson through what is now the underpass just before the Vista Ridge Tunnel & along the south side of the highway to merge with it just east of the Zoo overpass. It was buried in the early 1970s when the portion of the Sunset Highway/US 26 below the Zoo/contemporary Children's Museum was raised by 10-20 feet due to movement of an ancient slide under the Zoo parking lot. (That is why there is a bank of stones between the Zoo & US 26 near the Zoo exit: to act as a dam to hold back the slippage.) The existence of this read needs to be incorporated into this article. -- llywrch (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

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