Oregon Route 10 is an
Oregon state highway
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which serves
Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
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and some of its western
suburb
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s.
Route description
OR 10 begins as
Naito Parkway in
Downtown Portland starting where Naito Parkway interchanges with
U.S. Route 26
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. It heads south out of downtown, multiplexed with
Oregon Route 99W. After passing under the
Portland Aerial Tram, Naito Parkway ends at an interchange with Barbur Boulevard; the two routes continue south out of Portland on Barbur. OR 10 separates from OR 99W a few miles south of downtown, and proceeds along
Capitol Highway through the Portland neighborhood of
Hillsdale. Along here, it is a surface street, which cuts through the southern part of
Portland's West Hills. It separates from Capitol Highway in Hillsdale, which continues unnumbered, and becomes the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, highway number 40, a surface street with frequent traffic signals. The highway continues west into
Washington County.
In the community of
Raleigh Hills
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, OR 10 intersects with
Oregon Route 210 (locally known as Scholls Ferry Road), which heads southwest towards
Progress,
Tigard, and
Scholls. OR 10 continues west into
Beaverton, where it interchanges with
Oregon Route 217, a freeway. West of that interchange, the street name changes to Farmington Road, the eastern part of which is not a state highway, and comes a block parallel with
Oregon Route 8 in front of
Beaverton High School. The portion of OR 10 from downtown Beaverton to the intersection with
Oregon Route 219 was once known as
Oregon Route 208
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. OR 8 and 10 do not intersect, but it is not uncommon for commuters to use the frontage road for the OR 217 interchange or another surface street to change between the routes. As Farmington Road, OR 10 leaves Beaverton and cuts across half-developed suburbia to
Farmington
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*Farmington, British Columbia
*Farmington, Nova Scotia (disambiguation)
United States
* Farmington, Arkansas
*Farmington, California
* Farmington, Connecticut
*Farmington, Delaware
* Farmington, Georgia
...
and its intersection with OR 219. This final section comprises the Farmington Highway, highway number 142.
Major intersections
References
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* 10 (number)
* 8 (number) in octal numeral notation
* Motorola 68010, a microprocessor released by Motorola in 1982
* 010, the telephone area code of Beijing
* 010, the Rotterdam
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Transportation in Portland, Oregon
Transportation in Beaverton, Oregon
Transportation in Multnomah County, Oregon
1932 establishments in Oregon