Oregon Route 225
state highway in Lane County, Oregon, United States
Oregon Route 225 (OR 225) is an Oregon state highway running from I-5 (and unsigned OR 99) near Eugene to OR 126 Business in Springfield. OR 225 is known as the McVay Highway No. 225 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is 2.52 miles (4.06 km) long and runs north–south, entirely within Lane County.
OR 225 was established on November 13, 2002 as part of Oregon's project to assign route numbers to highways that previously were not assigned. As of October 2020, OR 225 was unsigned.
Route description
OR 225 begins at the southernmost section of exit 189 of Interstate 5, the exit for 30th Avenue and South Eugene. Here, there are only ramps allowing access to I-5 southbound and from I-5 northbound. OR 225 travels north on a two-lane frontage road to the west of I-5 while the state-maintained Franklin Boulevard acts as a frontage road on the east side of the Interstate. While paralleling I-5, the route passes small businesses and side streets allowing access to nearby residences.
“Oregon Route 225” enters the record as state highway in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oregon, Route and state can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2494428. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Oregon Route 225” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.