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Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, on the south side of the Columbia River in the northwest corner of the county.

The city had a population of 1,379 at the 2020 census, up from 1,144 in 2010, and the 2020 census counted 545 households in Cascade Locks.

Cascade Locks was incorporated in 1935.

The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River; the federal government approved the plan in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.

The original locks were submerged in 1938 and replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam, about 4 miles downstream of the city.

Cascade Locks is just upstream from the Bridge of the Gods, a toll bridge across the Columbia River that is the only bridge across the river between Portland and Hood River.

Cascade Locks is used frequently by hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail to cross the Columbia River, and it is the lowest point along the trail and the largest city directly on it.

U.S. Route 30 passes through the center of Cascade Locks as Wa Na Pa Street, joining Interstate 84 at both ends of downtown, and the city lies 19 miles east of Hood River and 43 miles west of Portland.

Cascade Locks has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate and receives an average of 76.27 inches of precipitation per year, and its ZIP code is 97014.

Since 1999, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have pursued an off-reservation casino to be sited in Cascade Locks.