About Us

i5pass.com exists for the drives Oregon winter makes hard: I-5 over Siskiyou Summit, the highest point on the whole interstate, and the Cascade crossings that feed Bend. We take the official data from the Oregon Department of Transportation and put it on one fast page: the live pass status, the current chain restriction in ODOT's own words, the road surface, the temperature at the summit, and the cameras, so you can decide in seconds whether to go, to chain up, or to wait.

Conditions come from the ODOT TripCheck road and weather reports, the same reports the snow zone signs read. Weather comes from the National Weather Service. When our page and another source disagree, the ODOT timestamp on this page tells you how fresh our read is.

This site also carries live pages for Santiam Pass, Willamette Pass, and Government Camp, so one storm check covers every crossing on the way to Bend.

The same idea powers our sister sites, i80pass.com for I-80 and Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada, and i90live.com for I-90 and Snoqualmie Pass in Washington. All three are built and run by Bright Red Design, a web design studio in Reno, Nevada.

Questions or a correction? Write to contact@i5pass.com.