Storm damage shuts down Oregon state park sites at coast, Columbia Gorge OregonLive.com 1/13/2021 Jamie Hale, oregonlive.com
More than a dozen Oregon state park sites are closed Wednesday, following an intense rainstorm that triggered flooding, landslides and massive waves across western Oregon.
Parks on the Oregon coast and in the Columbia River Gorge appear to have been hit the hardest, according to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, though the extent of the damage is not yet clear.
“Damage reports are trickling in, a challenge since power and phones are out in the very areas where we have the most to report,” state parks spokesmen Chris Havel said Wednesday. “We expected downed trees, flooding, and tidal debris to be the main problems, and this applies to all parks in the wide path of the storm from the coast through the Willamette Valley and Gorge all the way to the northeast corner.”