[Maarten]

[kleet]

Here's a portion of an old map I scanned. This is the area ML talks about...it doesn't look like the road extends past Goldmeyer?

portion of Cascade Crest Trail map, Washington (1965)

I have the whole map available as a .PDF as well if anyone is interested, though it's in two rather large files.

[Malachai Constant]

I have the Original 100 hikes (1966) and it talks about active logging at the end of the MFR. Picture of a bunch of mounties by Pedro camp w/trapper nelsons. The road was a lot better then also.

[Snowbrushy]

Kleet, If Old Man Goldmeyer had had it his way the road's would have gone over Dutch Miller Gap into Eastern Washington, and he would have been rich; not from timber but from water. As it was I think that it only went about one mile beyond G. Hotspring's - it's hard to tell where the buggy road's used to be. Goldmeyer was a original pioneer who had a donation claim at Sand Point in Seattle - now a city park. He was a farmer there. And like his other pioneer neighbor's he was roaming up in the Cascade range looking for mineral wealth. And he found it in the water. Goldmeyer Hotspring's. It was his dream that a main road over the mountains into Eastern Washington would be built over The Gap - and he would have a hot tub resort for the masses. He had the claim. He had the smelly hot water right out of the ground. He built a lodge and pipe's, etc. and he had it all together. But, his hopes were dashed when the road's didn't go that way. I should qualify this info. by saying that it is an oral history passed to me around 1966 from an elder person at Goldmeyer.