+ SUP Regulations – Sign the Petition!
The Human Powered Watercraft Association (HPWA) needs your help to repeal the current ruling that all SUPs are “vessels” and paddlers must carry or wear a personal flotation devise. Windsurfing has an exemption that allows the board to serve as the flotation device, and the HPWA is seeking a similar ruling for SUP.
You can help!
Learn more about the current rules and sign the petition to change them [here].
+ Help keep a U.S. beach open to windsurfing
Please help our friends in San Diego keep their gem at Lake Hodges open to windsurfing. City and County officials pledged it would reopen after construction; while construction is finished, they appear to be reneging this promise, leaving windsurfing without their well-loved launch.
Print sign and mail. That’s all you have to do to help keep a U.S. beach open to windsurfing. Find the petition and more info [here].
+ Your Windsurf-Friendly Guide to SR-14 Road Construction
What’s going on?
In a nutshell, Washington Department of Transportation is working on the roads to make sure that rocks don’t fall from the cliff into your windshield. Check out the rock blast video [here].
Here’s what you can do to be informed:
- Bookmark [this page] and check it before you get in the car for today’s construction schedule.
- Sign up up for weekly updates emailed straight to your inbox [here].
- Get text message updates. Instructions [here].
Where is SR14?
It’s the road that runs from the Hood River bridge to the Hatchery, Cheap Beach, and Swell City in Washington.
There are TWO construction locations:
- White Salmon (milepost 64): This may impact you if you are driving from the Hood River Bridge to the Hatchery, Swell, or Cheap Beach. The construction location is at the mouth of the White Salmon river. Click [here] for the detour, to use when the road is closed.
- Dog Mountain (milepost 54): This construction location may impact you if you are driving along the Washington side from the Hood River bridge to Stevenson or Home Valley. We recommend taking I-84 in Oregon instead, crossing over to Washington at the Bridge of the Gods, and driving east to Stevenson. This is about a 25 mile drive. Click here for a map.
Holiday Schedule
Both construction locations will be open for traffic to pass through on the following holidays:
- May 22 – White Salmon Spring Fest Parade
- May 28-31 – Memorial Day weekend
- June 26 – Stevenson Brews Blues & BBQs
- July 2-4 – Fourth of July weekend
- July 10 - White Salmon Art and Wine Fusion
- July 31 – Stevenson Sportbike NW Rally
- August 14 – Skamania County Fair
- August 28 – Home Valley Bigfoot Bash
- September 3-6 – Labor Day weekend
- September 11 – Bingen Huckleberry Festival Parade
Learn More
- Check out this video of the rockfall blast.
- See pictures from the project.
- Read about the project details.
Love it? Hate it? Want to vent?
Submit your feedback to Washington Department of Transportation [here].
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