Ogle Mountain Trail Hike

Overview

NOTICE: Trails in this area were affected by the 2020 Beachie Creek Fire. Please check current closures in the Willamette National Forest before planning an outing. It's been a long time since the Ogle Mountain Trail actually took prospectors to Ogle Mountain and the Ogle Mine on its west slope. Those locations are about a mile and a half north of the Willamette National Forest boundary and some distance before then the trail begins to peter out. It is still possible, however, to follow the trace of this old trail at least as far as the East Branch Henline Creek and the boundary of the national forest. Then you'll have to decide whether you want to turn back or attempt the more difficult, but not too lengthy, bushwhack up the back side of Henline Mountain to make a loop back to the Henline Falls Trailhead. There are a couple of worthy diversions on this hike, one of them, of course, the short walk to Henline Falls, best visited in the spring. Farther up the Ogle Mountain Trail, take a miner's track to the adits of the Queen of the West and then effect a short bushwhack up to two more waterfalls on Henline Creek. Note that a 2015 wildfire damaged parts of the Henline Falls and lower Ogle Mountain Trails. Sign in at the wilderness permit box at the trailhead and head up the Henline Falls Trail #3348. Join an old road bed, formerly FR2209-301, lined by red alder in a Douglas-fir/western hemlock forest with a salal, Oregon grape, and sword fern carpet. Pass a road track leading up to the right and then reach the unsigned Henline Falls-Ogle Mountain Trail Junction. Keep left here and reach the old trailhead with a sign for the Henline Falls Trail. This wide trail, once a tramway to the Silver King Mine, drops past some large Douglas-firs and then rises gently. Pass the junction with a user trail that rises steeply up the slope to the top of Henline Falls. Drop to the area of Henline Falls, squeezing past the concrete foundation of the Silver King Mine’s power plant, once fed by a flume whose brackets are still

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