by Steve Jones | Dec 28, 2021 | General Info
Vicinity Location:About 91 miles southeast of Portland, OR in the Deschutes National Forest. Directions: From Portland: drive I-5 south for about 45 miles and take exit 253 towards Detroit Lake and Bend. Drive Highway 22 for 80 miles and continue straight onto Highway...
by Steve Jones | Sep 12, 2017 | General Info |
12/24/2018 – In case you didn’t know, many trails on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge near Portland have reopened after the Eagle Creek Fire of 2017. Trails near Eagle Creek remain closed through the summer of 2020. View the list of open and...
by Steve Jones | May 25, 2017 | Biking, Dayhikes, General Info
Vicinity Location:The trailhead is about 45 miles West of Portland, OR, in the Tillamook State Forest.Directions:From Portland, take Highway 26 west for about 20 miles. Take the left exit for Hwy 6 towards Banks, Tillamook, and Forest Grove. This is also known as the...
by Steve Jones | Nov 18, 2016 | General Info |
A behind the scenes look at keeping the road open. <iframe src="https://www.nps.gov/media/video/embed.htm?id=DE6D986A-BBE1-4747-C894B6E530591530" width="480" height="306" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"...
by Steve Jones | Sep 20, 2016 | General Info |
Eliot Crossing is now OPEN. The trail reroute was completed on 9/14/2016. This section of trail was closed due to an extreme washout on the trail that occurred in 2006. A 1.4 mile reroute has been constructed downstream of the previous crossing. I’ll...
by Drew Furnia | Aug 12, 2016 | General Info |
From the editorial board 2016 Dean J. Koepfler dkoepfler@thenewstribune.com This year the National Park Service celebrates its centennial, which might account for why traffic on the main roads to Mount Rainier is as bad as it’s ever been. The park reported 187,037...
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