Visual History
| Image | Proposed Bingen Winds golf course and motel development |
| Date | Between August 1985 and July 1987 (estimated) |
| Perspective | Overhead |
This artist's rendering of the proposed Bingen Winds development shows a golf course, a waterfront motel, retail shops, a port office, open moorage, courtesy docks, and a tour boat dock (the white area in the lower center of the drawing is the former Mt. Adams Loggers Association site). Proposed during the period when the Columbia Gorge was just being recognized for its windsurfing potential, the development was envisioned as a destination resort. In pitching the idea, Allen Bracken Cherry (the developer) even described Bingen as being to windsurfing what Aspen, Colorado, was to skiing. However, by early 1987 problems had surfaced that cast a shadow over the development and in July of that year, the option to develop was allowed to expire and the project was abandoned.
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