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Drift Creek Falls is a waterfall formed west of Valley of the Giants, east side of the city of Lincoln City in Lincoln County, Oregon. [1] Access to Drift Creek Falls is located along a trail constructed by the Forest Service in the 1990s and features a 240 foot long suspension bridge crossing Drift Creek. [2]
Drift Creek is a tributary, about 18 miles (29 km) long, of Siletz Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon. [3] The creek begins near Stott Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range in Lincoln County and follows a winding course generally west through the Siuslaw National Forest to enter the bay south of Lincoln City on the Pacific Ocean.
The county dismantled the bridge in 1997 and gave the timbers to Laura and Kerry Sweitz, who owned land 8 miles (13 km) north of the Drift Creek site. In 2000, the Sweitz family rebuilt the bridge over Bear Creek and granted a permanent public easement at that site. [4] Bear Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River, which it enters near Rose ...
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The East Valley Water District, made up of a group of farmers around Mt. Angel, has been seeking to build a dam south of Silverton for a decade.
Drift Creek Bridge: 1914 1979-11-29 removed 1998-07-21: Rogers Lane over Bear Creek, southeast of Otis (moved from Drift Creek Road over Drift Creek, southeast of Lincoln City) Lincoln: Covered Howe truss: Elk City Bridge: 1922 1979-11-29 removed 1986-11-25
The wilderness is one of a handful of federally protected old-growth forest stands in the Oregon Coast Range, others being the Drift Creek Wilderness, the Rock Creek Wilderness, and the Cummins Creek Wilderness, all of which were established in 1984. [3] [4] [5]
Drift Creek Wilderness is a 5,798-acre (2,346 ha) wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with two other small wilderness areas in the forest - Cummins Creek Wilderness and Rock Creek Wilderness .