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The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre (1,470 km 2) publicly owned forest in the U.S. state of Oregon. Managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry , it is located 40 miles (64 km) west of Portland in the Northern Oregon Coast Range , and spans Washington , Tillamook , Yamhill , and Clatsop counties.
Tillamook State Forest. The state of Oregon owns 44% of the land inside the county boundaries, mostly as part of the Tillamook State Forest. The State Forest was created as a result of the 355,000-acre (144,000 ha) Tillamook Burn. The reforested burn is rapidly maturing, and there is local expectation that it will assist in the recovery of the ...
Rogers Peak is approximately 8 miles (13 km) north of Lees Camp on Oregon Route 6 with access via North Fork Road. [11] Hiking the mountain is about a 3.5 miles (5.6 km) round-trip with an elevation gain of about 1,100 feet (340 m). [11] The mountain, located on private timber land, is near the Oregon Coast. [12] [13]
Oregon Route 6 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Oregon that runs between the city of Tillamook on the Oregon Coast, to the Willamette Valley, near Banks.OR 6 traverses the Wilson River Highway No. 37 of the Oregon state highway system, [2] named after the river paralleling the highway's western segment.
Lees Camp (also Lee's Camp) is an unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is along Oregon Route 6 about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Tillamook at the confluence of the Wilson River and North Fork Wilson River, surrounded by the Tillamook State Forest. [2] It is near the summit of the Northern Oregon Coast ...
About a one-half-mile (800 m) up Idiot Creek was a logging camp called Ryan's Camp, which was part of the salvage operations following the Tillamook Burn. Since the spot was so remote, it was said that only an idiot would work there, so the camp was popularly known as Idiotville. The name was eventually applied to the stream. [2]
The Wilson River, about 33 miles (53 km) long, flows from the Northern Oregon Coast Range to Tillamook Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon.Formed by the confluence of its Devil's Lake Fork and its South Fork, it runs generally west through the Tillamook State Forest to its mouth near the city of Tillamook.
Tillamook National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on March 2, 1907, with 175,518 acres (710.30 km 2). On July 1, 1908, Executive Order 860 assigned a portion to Umpqua National Forest to establish Siuslaw National Forest and the remainder was returned to the public domain.