Ive no idea where the name Romantic Gorge came from, the view from the bridge is more fearful in height and lack of width that its definately a gorge, romantic? well I dont know. What I do know is that it holds a huge amount of history, originally the trains travelled downside the gorge, switching from one side to another towards Stillwater, later in the years it was the main road to the Lois Dam (Gordon Pasha Lakes Dam was the original name) and thousands of people have transverse up to the dam or across the bridge up Lois Lakes. The Gorge holds another memory, a memory of a time that it was once socially acceptable to dump anything you didnt want there, over the bank, from cars, washing machines to small appliances to jars and junk. When I was young, our cars were always what was called 4th hand cars, meaning we were the last people to probably own them because the other owners have given up on repairing them. So when these cars needed repairs, I recall my dad taking me to Romantic Gorge, I always liked the bridge view but the logging trucks used to barrel through there so I had to stay off it (well I would sneak on when my dad was busy). My dad would climb down over the bank of the gorge and look for the car parts he wanted. Ive help pull out transmisson, engines, rear ends, fenders and more from that gorge. In a old way we helped clean it up as we needed things lol, but 60 or so years after the Gorge started to be filled with garbage, its all still there, rusting away, slowly sliding down the side of the gorge and Im sure being washed away during high water times. Here are some pictures of what its like this day being May 20 2012, enjoy the pics even though its a sad reminder, its still part of the history, one Im glad is becoming a vanishing history.
