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The Rock Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area comprising 7,486 acres (3,029 ha) within the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with the Drift Creek Wilderness and Cummins Creek Wilderness. [1] The Rock Creek Wilderness has "no developed trails or trailheads." [2]
The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is located on the Oregon Coast, stretching approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of the Coos River in North Bend to the Siuslaw River in Florence, and adjoining Honeyman State Park on the west. It is part of Siuslaw National Forest and is administered by the United States Forest Service.
The Siuslaw National Forest (/ s aɪ ˈ j uː s l ɔː / sy-YOO-slaw) [4] is a national forest in western Oregon in the United States. Established in 1908, the Siuslaw is made up of a wide variety of ecosystems , ranging from coastal forests to sand dunes.
Jan. 30—The Siuslaw National Forest initiated its largest western snowy plover habitat restoration project to date by removing vegetation along the beach between the Siltcoos River and the ...
The area became part of the Siuslaw National Forest in 1908. In 1914, the United States Forest Service cut a narrow road into the cliff around Cape Perpetua and constructed a wooden bridge across the Yachats River, opening travel between the small community of Yachats and Florence to the south. The wooden bridge was replaced in 1926 with a ...
The 6.5-mile (10.5 km) Cummins Creek Loop Trail bisects and is the only trail within the wilderness area. The trail follows an old logging road and eventually meets the Cook's Ridge Trail. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Forest Service claims that fishing is not very good in Cummins Creek, and due to the fragile condition of the soil in the wilderness ...
The remainder of the trail traverses Siuslaw National Forest with 6 miles (9.7 km) requiring trail to be built. The trail was set to open on June 6, 2020, but is delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] [2] The project to establish the trail had more than 40,000 volunteer hours and $20,000 in donations. [1]
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.