Oregon
	5.5 miles 865 feet 3 hours 5 minutes
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This was a nice place to stop and break up the drive from Portland to the Washington coast. You can park next to the fish hatchery, right off the highway, where you'll find indoor toilets and a ranger station. If you bring quarters you can buy feed pellets to throw into the fish pools.

The hike is typical Pacific Northwestern terrain. The pleasant sounds of the river are audible most of the time, but you won't often see it from the trail. There's a slight incline, but nothing too taxing.

The Berry Patch restaurant is not too far a drive away, where you can stop for a good slice of pie.

Nice and green, as always up here.

What an outburst of mushrooms!

Leaves turning color for fall.

Lush and damp, but luckily not muddy. Bog factor 1, as walkhighlands.co.uk would say.

The river is mostly not visible from the trail, but you can get down to it in spots.

I love seeing all the unique mushrooms.

Rapids near the start. Would anyone call these a beach or waterfall?

Happy times on the trail! There's a bench at the end where we had a hot tea.