It is located in eastern Multnomah County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Portland.

[5] The 1918 Art Nouveau style Vista House is an observatory at Crown Point that also serves as a memorial to Oregon pioneers and as a comfort station for travelers on the Historic Columbia River Highway.

The building shows great sensitivity to its site in the Columbia River Gorge near Corbett,[6] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[7] Per the 2000 NHL nomination of the highway:This 560-foot [170 m] spiral viaduct was constructed of reinforced concrete and runs for 225 degrees of a circle around Crown Point.

It functions as a 7-foot-wide [2.1 m] sidewalk and curb with a 4-foot-high [1.2 m] parapet wall on the outside of a 24-foot [7.3 m] roadway cut into the rock formation.