Washington State Route 28

State Route 28
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Route information
Defined by RCW 47.17.120
Maintained by WSDOT
Length:	135.32 mi (217.78 km)
Existed:	1964 – present
Major junctions
West end:	US 2 / US 97 in East Wenatchee
	SR 17 in Soap Lake SR 21 in Odessa SR 23 in Harrington
East end:	US 2 in Davenport
Location
Counties:	Douglas, Grant, Lincoln
Highway system
State highways in Washington Interstate US State Scenic Former PSH 1964 renumbering Former ← SR 27 SR 31 →

State Route 28 (SR 28) is a 135.32-mile (217.78 km) long state highway serving Douglas, Grant, and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and U.S. Route 97 (US 97) in East Wenatchee and travels east through Quincy, Ephrata, and Odessa before ending at US 2 in Davenport. The route parallels the Columbia River and a rail line operated by BNSF Railway through mostly rural areas.

SR 28 has been signed into law as the Sunset Highway and North Central Highway since 1915. These two highways later became State Road 7 and State Road 10, respectively, in a 1923 renumbering. The two roads kept their numeral designation past the 1937 renumbering, becoming Primary State Highway 7 (PSH 7) and Primary State Highway 10 (PSH 10), later joined in 1964 to form SR 28.

Route description

State Route 28 (SR 28) begins at an intersection in the Grant County city of East Wenatchee with the concurrent U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and U.S. Route 97 (US 97) and a future extension of Eastmont Avenue. The highway extends south through suburban areas parallel to the Columbia River and the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail into East Wenatchee. SR 28 passes the historic Columbia River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and intersects State Route 285 in a partial cloverleaf interchange west of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, forming a pair of one-way streets. The road gradually turns east along the bank of the Columbia River, exiting East Wenatchee into farmland and passing Pangborn Memorial Airport, the busiest section of the entire route with a daily average of 35,000 vehicles in 2011. SR 28 passes through the community of Rock Island and turns southeast, serving the Rock Island Dam before leaving Douglas County and entering Grant County.

Entering Grant County, the highway travels east away from the Columbia River and runs along the southern flank of the Beezley Hills parallel to a BNSF rail line into Quincy, where SR 28 becomes F Street and intersects SR 281. The East Wenatchee–Quincy section is part of the National Highway System, a network of strategic highways within the United States. The highway leaves Quincy and turns northeast at an intersection with SR 283 and enters Ephrata, becoming Basin Street. Basin Street intersects SR 282, a short connector to the Ephrata Municipal Airport, in Ephrata before intersecting SR 17 in nearby Soap Lake. The highway turns east and passes through the rural communities of Adco, Stratford, and Wilson Creek before exiting Grant County and entering Lincoln County. East of the Lincoln County boundary, SR 28 becomes 1st Avenue in Odessa and intersects SR 21. The highway continues northeast through Lamona and intersects SR 23 in a bypass of Harrington. The roadway turns north and enters Davenport, where SR 28 ends at US 2 west of the southern terminus of SR 25.

History

State Route 28 (SR 28) was built on a corridor that was designated as two highways in 1915: the Sunset Highway from East Wenatchee to Quincy and the North Central Highway, a secondary highway from Quincy to Davenport. The Sunset Highway became State Road 10 and the North Central Highway became State Road 7 in a 1923 renumbering. The western and eastern terminus of what would become SR 28 was U.S. Route 10 (US 10, established in 1926 with the United States Numbered Highway System. During the introduction of the Primary and secondary state highway system in 1937, both routes kept their former numeral designations, becoming Primary State Highway 10 (PSH 10) and Primary State Highway 7 (PSH 7). US 10 was re-routed south and the former route was designated as U.S. Route 10 Alternate in the 1940s, until U.S. Route 2 (US 2) was extended from Idaho in 1946. SR 28 was established during the 1964 highway renumbering and written into law in 1970. In 1975, the highway was extended north to a new junction with US 2, now concurrent with U.S. Route 97 (US 97). State Route 285 (SR 285) was established in 1977 to maintain the former route of US 2, mainly the Senator George Sellar Bridge, being extended through Downtown Wenatchee to Sunnyslope. Since 1975, no major revisions to the highway have occurred, however the Washington State Department of Transportation is, as of January 2013, building an extension to Eastmont Street in East Wenatchee, ending at the western terminus of SR 28.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Grant	East Wenatchee	0.00	0.00	US 2 / US 97 – Seattle, Ellensburg, Spokane, Okanogan	Western terminus
		3.80– 4.25	6.12– 6.84	SR 285 – Wenatchee	Southern terminus of SR 285; interchange
Grant	Quincy	33.91	54.57	SR 281 south to I‑90 – George	Northern terminus of SR 281
	​	46.23	74.40	SR 283 south to I‑90 – Ellensburg	Northern terminus of SR 283
	Ephrata	50.77	81.71	SR 282 east to I‑90 – Moses Lake	Western terminus of SR 282
	Soap Lake	57.03	91.78	SR 17 – Soap Lake, Grand Coulee Dam, Moses Lake
Lincoln	Odessa	97.86	157.49	SR 21 – Wilbur, Lind
	Harrington	122.26	196.76	SR 23 south – Sprague	Northern terminus of SR 23
	Davenport	135.32	217.78	US 2 to SR 25 north – Wenatchee, Spokane	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

External links

• Highways of Washington
• Wenatchee Area Cameras