State Route Two-Oh-Four — A Vowel Drifts

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

Sal: Between State Route Two-Oh-Four and Bickford Avenue. Sal: At the east end of the trestle, State Route Two-Oh-Four connects this highway to Lake Stevens. The hill at this junction is Cavalero Hill, named for Dominic Cavelero, an Italian immigrant who reached the United States in 1883 and, after a year in Montana, settled in Snohomish County. The bottom of the hill, where the highway curves toward Everett, was known as Cavelero's Corner. Sal: Cavelero ran a shingle mill west of Stanwood and farmed vegetables on the Snohomish River flats, and in all he amassed twenty-one hundred and fifty…