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Elijah Bristow State Park: three group day-use areas
Fall Creek State Recreation Site: Fisherman’s Point group camp area
Jasper State Recreation Site: four group day-use areas
Lowell State Recreation Site: day-use picnic shelter area
Jessie Honeyman State Park: group camping areas A and F, and hiker and bicycler areas (first-come, first-serve)
Carl Washburne State Park: hiker and bicycler camp (first-come, first-serve)
“Although we can’t open all group areas in all parks and the lower group limits isn’t what we are used to, we ask for your patience as we move forward,” said Jason Resch, communications manager for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
Oregon parks to resume group camping and day-use reservations starting Thursday By Louis Krauss, The Register-Guard
Published: April 14, 2021, 8:05am
Share: Mount Adams as seen from the junction where the Divide Camp Trail meets the Pacific Crest Trail.
Oregon State Parks will begin taking reservations for group camping and day-use areas in select parks starting Thursday.
This is the first reopening of group facilities since they were closed more than a year ago because of revenue shortfalls and reduced staffing caused by COVID-19, according to a state parks news release.
The online reservation slots will become available between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. Thursday, and a list of which parks are available for group reservations is online at the Oregon State Parks website. The first reservable dates begin in May.
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.”
Rise of the rookie hikers: The pandemic pushed a new wave of people outside, for better or worse
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Posted Dec 29, 2020
Hikers rest at a viewpoint on the hike to the top of Hamilton Mountain in the Columbia River Gorge. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
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When it came to hiking, Jordan Bishop always wondered what the fuss was about. A Toronto native, he didn’t grow up with much nature close at hand, at least not as glorious and as alluring as the natural landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.
Bishop, 29, now lives in Portland, where hiking and camping are sewn into the cultural fabric, and communing with nature is essentially religion. But it wasn’t necessarily nature that finally drew him outside; it took peer pressure and a pandemic to get him to the trail.