Site Navigation California Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada Oregon Washington     Interstate 84 Westbound: Troutdale to Interstate 5 Highway Guides Eastbound: Portland Area - Interstate 5 to Troutdale Columbia River Gorge (eastern Multnomah County and Hood River County) Wasco and Sherman Counties Gilliam and Morrow Counties Umatilla County Union County Baker County Malheur County Westbound: Malheur County Baker County Union County Umatilla County Morrow and Gilliam Counties Sherman and Wasco Counties Columbia River Gorge (Hood River County and eastern Multnomah County) Portland Area - Troutdale to Interstate 5 (western Multnomah County) Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 west As in the gorge, Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 are co-signed in the Portland metro area. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The next exit along Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 west is Exit 16, Junction Former Bypass U.S. 30 west and 238th Drive north/south. Exit 16 is a standard diamond interchange. 238th Drive leads south to Gresham via Wood Village. Though it is not mentioned on signs here, this interchange marks the eastern terminus of the former U.S. 30 Bypass Route: northbound 238th Drive leads to Sandy Boulevard (Former U.S. 30 Bypass). From there, Bypass U.S. 30 traveled west along Sandy Boulevard through northern Portland. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Interstate 84 passes quickly through Wood Village and enters Fairview (pop. 9,327 according to a 2005 estimate), where it runs above grade and crosses over 223rd Avenue (Fairview Avenue). Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Fairview can be accessed by taking exit 14, as this one-half mile advance sign shows. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Sandy Boulevard is officially announced on an advance sign on the approach to exit 14. Note that no reference is made to the now-decommissioned U.S. 30 Bypass Route. A folded diamond interchange at exit 14 connects the freeway with 207th Avenue in Fairview, a recently constructed street that intersects with Sandy Boulevard to the north and Halsey Street to the south. Blue Lake Park, popular with anglers and swimmers alike, can be reached by heading east on Sandy to Fairview Avenue/Blue Lake Road. Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The next exit for westbound Interstate 84 will be exit 13, 181st Avenue and Airport Way. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The speed limit here is still 60 miles per hour, but it will soon change to 55 for all vehicles not long after the freeway enters Portland. Interstate 84 now moves into the city of Gresham (2005 estimated pop. 96,072). Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Once again, Interstate 84 travels above grade, meeting 181st Avenue at Exit 13. 181st Avenue, though technically part of the Portland street grid system, became a Gresham city street when that city pushed its boundary westward into unincorporated Multnomah County during the 1980s. Northbound 181st Avenue crosses Sandy Boulevard and then turns west, defaulting to Airport Way. Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06) and AARoads (09/02/06). West of 181st Avenue, westbound Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 enter a stretch with only a precious few exits. In fact, the next direct access to a city surface street won't come until exit 2/ 43rd Avenue. The only interchange available until then will be at exit 9/ Jct. Interstate 205 in east Portland. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Interstate 84 westbound enters the Rose City just before crossing over 162nd Avenue. With 533,427 residents (2005 estimate), Portland is roughly the size of Seattle, though the greater metro area is quite a bit smaller than that of Seattle-Tacoma. Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06) and AARoads (09/02/06). Motorists encounter the first of two diagrammatic signs for Exit 9, Junction Interstate 205/War Veterans Memorial Freeway (West Portland Freeway) at the 148th Avenue overpass. As at 162nd Avenue, there is no interchange here. Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Other than the fact that the "S" is missing in "Salem," the one-mile advance sign for exit 9 is pretty much a rerun of the 2-mile advance sign. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Westbound Interstate 84 and U.S. 30 cross over another east Portland arterial, this time 122nd Avenue. Half of a folded-diamond interchange provides access for eastbound Interstate 84 , but there is no access for westbound traffic. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). This somewhat cryptic sign advises drivers to keep left for east Portland and the Portland airport. If you want to hit the surface streets of east Portland, Exit 9, Junction Interstate 205 is your only chance before Exit 2. Traveling north or south on Interstate 205 provides exits into the city from the east. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Westbound Interstate 84 meets Interstate 205 at Exit 9, and the interchange set up at the junction is somewhat complicated. Exit 9 is a left-hand exit, and the main flow of Interstate 84 westbound veers right and is routed on a flyover ramp that passes above lanes carrying traffic to and from Interstate 205. Drivers taking Exit 9 will continue more or less straight, passing under the Interstate 84 westbound flyover. After that, the exit lanes diverge with the right lane heading for northbound I-205 and the Portland Airport. The left lane heads through a tunnel underneath Interstate 205 after the split and then merges with the southbound lanes. Photos taken 09/02/06. Continuing on Interstate 84 west, traffic crosses over the Exit 9 lanes. Photos taken 09/02/06. Westbound Interstate 84 bends south after the exit 9 interchange. Photo taken 09/02/06. The freeway passes under the Fremont Street overpass. Note the ramp merging from Fremont on the right. Photo taken 09/02/06. For about a mile, Interstate 84 and I-205 run parallel to each other in a north-south orientation, with Interstate 84 on the east. An Interstate 84 reassurance shield seen along this stretch lacks a U.S. 30 companion, though the two routes continue to share the same roadbed. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The southern end of the Interstate 84 and Interstate 205 junction boasts another complicated tangle of ramps. Interstate 84 westbound passes under the Halsey Street overpass (first image), and then under Interstate 205 and the Airport light rail (second image). Finally, the freeway passes under the flyover ramps carrying the downtown light rail and traffic from northbound Interstate 205 (third image). Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Traffic from northbound Interstate 205 and Glisan Street merges with westbound Interstate 84 and U.S. 30. The downtown light rail line now runs parallel with the north shoulder of the freeway. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). This stretch of Interstate 84 is known locally as the "Banfield Freeway" or simply "The Banfield." Though westbound Banfield traffic passes beneath Oregon 213/Eighty-second Avenue, no exit is provided (however, eastbound travelers get an exit). Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Halsey Street crosses over the Banfield Freeway a second time just past 82nd Avenue. Halsey isn't the one changing course; the freeway follows a back-and-forth curving path for the rest of the way downtown, cutting under the path of Halsey Street several times along the way. Photo taken by 09/02/06. Interstate 84 continues its westward course toward I-5, passing under 74th Avenue (first image) and, for a third time, Halsey Street (second image). There are no exits for these streets. Shields mounted on the Halsey Street overpass correctly display both Intestate 84 and U.S. 30. Photos taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). At long last, westbound Interstate 84 approaches an interchange with Portland surface streets. The 60th Avenue overpass carries a 3/4-mile advance sign for exit 2/ 43rd Avenue. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The freeway passes under 53rd Avenue where an overpass sign announces Portland's Hollywood District is at the next exit. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Although it is six lanes wide with decent shoulders, the Banfield Freeway feels hemmed in by the city. Photo taken 09/02/06. After an eleven-mile stretch with only one interchange, westbound traffic on Interstate 84 finally gets an exit into Portland at exit 2/ 43rd Avenue. Though the sign says "43rd Avenue," Halsey Street and the Hollywood District are the real destinations. The exit 2 ramp (third image) rises to pass over the light rail tracks, curves 90 degrees, and then lowers to become 43rd Avenue. 43rd itself ends quickly at a "T" intersection with Halsey Street. (Exit 2 for eastbound Banfield traffic occurs at the 39th Avenue half-diamond interchange.) Photos taken 09/02/06 and by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The Banfield freeway continues west to exit 1/ Lloyd Center, which is noted on this one-and-a-half-mile advance sign. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Closing in on the western terminus of Interstate 84 , signs announce the Rose Quarter, home of the Rose Garden Arena, and the Eastside Industrial District, both accessible by taking exit 1. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). The Banfield Freeway follows the a route through "Sullivan's Gulch" as it approaches exit 1. This broad gulch has long been a right-of-way in Portland: first for the Union Pacific, then for the Banfield Expressway (U.S. 30), and finally for Interstate 80N and Interstate 84 and the downtown light rail. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). An auxiliary lane directs traffic toward exit 1/ Lloyd Center. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). This one-mile advance sign on the 21st Avenue overpass prepares drivers for the approaching junction with Interstate 5. The "Convention Center" mentioned on the right hand sign is the Oregon Convention Center which sits just north of Interstate 84 , on the east shore of the Willamette River. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Westbound Interstate 84 meets its final interchange at Exit 1, Lloyd Center. After exiting, a ramp carries traffic over the Union Pacific tracks and Lloyd Boulevard. A split at the end of the off ramp allows drivers to choose northbound 13th Avenue to Lloyd Center, or to continue straight and merge with westbound Lloyd Boulevard. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Approaching Interstate 5/Pacific Highway, signs begin to segregate lanes to their various destinations. Note that the Convention Center is mentioned again on the far right sign. Though the sign says "exit only," it actually refers to an exit from I-5 northbound. At the upcoming split, this auxiliary lane will join the lane bound for northbound I-5, but will then become an auxiliary exit-only lane at I-5 exit 302A. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). A second diagrammatic sign announces the upcoming split for northbound and southbound Interstate 5. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Interstate 5 may be the end of westbound Interstate 84, but it isn't the end for westbound U.S. 30. To continue on U.S. 30, take Interstate 5 north to Exit 302B. U.S. 30 will continue northwest along the Columbia River until it meets U.S. 101 in Astoria on the coast. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Interstate 84 approaches its end as it passes underneath the Grand Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard one-way couplet. Photo taken 09/02/06. This is it...the terminus for westbound lanes of Interstate 84. Head south on I-5 (left lanes) for downtown Portland, and the city's western and southern suburbs. Head north on Interstate 5 for north Portland and Vancouver, Washington. Photo taken 09/02/06. The right hand lanes carry Interstate 84 traffic to northbound Interstate 5 and westbound U.S. 30. The Steel Bridge, mentioned on the right sign, is visible on the horizon. Photo taken by Matt Strieby (06/18/06). Page Updated October 22, 2006.