Talk:Oregon Route 205

Connection to NV 292 and 140 at Denio

There are locally (county) maintained roads that connect OR 205 at Frenchglen through the desert to Denio, Nevada. While these are not state highways, they may be shown as OR 205 on Google maps. Should this information be incorporated somehow into the article? 108.246.205.134 (talk) 17:24, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge with High Desert Discovery Scenic Byway

The two items are the same thing, and the other article already existed. The content should be in one place. Imzadi 1979 → 04:15, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

If they aren't, then a good deal of content from the article article could still be imported here to improve this article. Imzadi 1979 → 05:01, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

• Most byways include sections of several highways so the byway route is different than the highways that the route travels over. As a result, it is appropriate to address scenic byways and the highways that make them up in separately articles. In this case, the High Desert Discovery Scenic Byway is almost entirely on Oregon Route 205; however, the first mile is on Oregon Route 78. In addition, the High Desert Discovery Scenic Byway article discusses two alternate tour routes that are associated with the Discovery byway. However, no part of these tour routes is on Oregon Route 205. Taken together the main Discovery byway and the two add-on tour routes are substantially different from Route 205. Therefore, I believe two separate articles are required.--Orygun (talk) 05:06, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
  • If that's the case, then the other article does not make that clear. You put OR 205 in the infobox, but not OR 78. Both of these articles need quite a bit of clean up yet so that non-locals can make sense of the situation. Imzadi 1979 → 05:09, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

• Added Route 78 to infobox and added "|adj=on" to fix mileage conversion template as you suggested. Wasn’t aware that road articles always went south-to-north…learn something new everyday. Must say, there are a lot of Wikipedia highway articles that go the other way…and I don’t see any that were flagged for that. In the case of the Discovery byway south-to-north still doesn’t make sense to me since the highway ends at Fields (the south end of the byway). Not only does the byway end at that point, but so does the pavement. Here’s what road look like south of Fields File:Steens Mountain (Harney County, Oregon scenic images) (harDA0158).jpg.--Orygun (talk) 06:03, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

• Was pretty sure mile posts along this route went north-to-south. Here’s video of Discovery byway route between Burns (in the north) and Frenchglen (in the south). If you check road side mile markers you'll see they begin at Burns and get larger as you head south. Too make the review easier, you can find clear picture of miler marker 15 at video time 4:46 and mile maker 17 at video time marker 5:02. Wiki-Roads route description rule says "Regardless of the route's length, progression should follow the mileposts as they are maintained by the state, typically from south to north, west to east." Since state of Oregon posted mile marker north-to-south along Discovery byway/OR 205, north-to-south route description is appropriate.--Orygun (talk) 20:07, 25 May 2014 (UTC)