The Dennis L. Edwards Tunnel is a highway tunnel in northwestern Oregon that carries the Sunset Highway (

U.S. Route 26 U.S. Route 26 (US 26) is an east–west United States highway that runs from Seaside, Oregon to Ogallala, Nebraska. When the U.S. highway system was first defined, it was limited to Nebraska and Wyoming; by the 1950s, it continued into Idaho and ...

) through the Northern Oregon Coast Range mountains near the unincorporated community of Manning, west of

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. The tunnel was completed in 1940 and is long. The tunnel was originally known as the Sunset Tunnel until 2002. It was renamed in honor of Dennis L. Edwards, an Oregon Department of Transportation worker who was killed on January 28, 1999 when part of the tunnel collapsed while he was inspecting it for damage caused by heavy rains. The tunnel was closed for five weeks for repairs, and renamed for Edwards three years later.

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Road tunnels in Oregon Transportation buildings and structures in Washington County, Oregon Tunnels completed in 1940 1940 establishments in Oregon U.S. Route 26 {{US-tunnel-stub

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