Homeacres Road — The Long Trestle

Sal on US 2 Westbound: Gold Bar to Everett · Oct 29, 2026 · 1m

Sal: Between Interstate Five and Homeacres Road. Sal: Between Everett and Ebey Island, the highway rides the Hewitt Avenue Trestle across the Snohomish River delta. The original wooden and concrete causeway opened on January 15, 1936, linking Everett with central Snohomish County. Sal: The top ninety to one hundred feet of the river valley here is soft silt, and that is how deep the pilings go, on average, before they touch solid ground. A second, parallel trestle opened partway in 1968 and fully in 1969, for 7.3 million dollars. By 1993, as many as thirty thousand vehicles a day were…