Mitchell Point is a

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in the

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, United States. Little is known about the man named Mitchell for whom the point was named. He was believed to be a

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who lived and died in the area. There have been some efforts to rename the point Storm Crest, but they have not been successful. The now-demolished

Mitchell Point Tunnel The Mitchell Point Tunnel was a tunnel located towards the eastern end of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Oregon, United States. It existed from 1915 to 1966. History The tunnel was designed by John Arthur Elliott, who was inspired by a ...

on the

Historic Columbia River Highway The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles, built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922. As the first planned scenic roadway in the United ...

was bored through the point, which is a cliff that overhangs the

Columbia River The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...

. The part of the rock through which the tunnel passed was known to the local Native Americans as Little Storm King, and the larger mountain above that point was known as Great Storm King.

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Historic image of the Mitchell Point Tunnel
from Salem Public Library Landforms of Hood River County, Oregon Columbia River Gorge Rock formations of Oregon Headlands of Oregon {{HoodRiverCountyOR-geo-stub