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US 830 measured 201.7 miles in total length.

US 830 was entirely in Washington, running along the north bank of the Columbia River, connecting US 97 to US 101.  It never connected with its implied "parent" (US 30), but that route ran (and still does run) along the south bank in Oregon, right across the river from US 830.  This first photo was looking west on WA hwy. 4 where it ends at US 101:

That is the modern functional equivalent of US 830's terminus (the town of Naselle is about five miles behind the camera).  However, historic topo maps reveal that junction did not exist prior to the 1980s, and that US 830's endpoint was actually a half-mile further west:

This is the junction that was described as "Johnson's Landing" in the 1927 route log (above).  This image was taken looking east on northbound US 101.  The road visible at left was US 101's original alignment, while straight ahead was historically the west beginning of US 830:

That segment of historic US 101 is no longer open to vehicles.  Today US 101 continues ahead for about a half-mile, and then makes a left turn to the north.  After another half-mile or so, it rejoins the original alignment.

This photo was looking the opposite direction (west, on southbound US 101).  Historically US 101 traffic came in from behind the tree at far right, so this was the perspective of a driver at the west end of US 830:

Until the mid-1930s the highway running along the north bank of the Columbia (today's WA hwy. ​14) was not complete between Lyle and Maryhill.  So when US 830 was first commissioned, traffic was routed northeast out of Lyle, along what is now known as the Centerville Highway: through its eponymous town, ending at US 97 about four miles south of Goldendale.  ​This 1927 map attempted to illustrate that (note the lack of a road between Maryhill and Lyle):

The old routing of US 830 was still shown on this map, even though by this time the "new" US 830 had been completed between Lyle and Maryhill:

This photo shows the signage at that original endpoint.  Goldendale is to the left via northbound US 97; to the right is the junction with WA 14, which leads to Vancouver:

The backside of that sign is visible in this photo, which was looking west across US 97, along the historic east beginning of US 830:

North of modern hwy. 14, this route is now known as the "Old Maryhill Loops Road", so-called because of the tortuous switchbacks that almost seem to be stacked on top of each other (this old alignment has since been re-paved and opened to non-motorized traffic).  South of hwy. 14, US 97 partially followed what is now a county road used to access the Stonehenge replica.  However, the middle segment of that road is newer, and old US 97 probably followed a different route slightly downslope from there (now mostly abandoned).  This photo was looking west on Stonehenge Road:

Historically that was southbound US 97, which probably continued down the canyon at left, winding up at the old ferry landing in Maryhill (US 97 traffic crossed the Columbia via ferry until about 1962).  Straight ahead would have been the east beginning of US 830.  Here we are looking the opposite direction (west on Stonehenge):