Tap a numbered dot and listen.
East through the Columbia River Gorge on Sam Hill's highway — built to prove a road could be beautiful — past Vista House, the Corps of Discovery's white-knuckle passage of the rapids, and the orchards that made Hood River a fruit empire before the wind arrived.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.