11 min
Overview
The drainage of the imposingly named Red River, in reality a short coastal creek, was the original municipal water source for Waldport, and a concrete dam from those times remains. This short trail makes use of old vehicle tracks as it rises to a ridgeline park. A disc golf course is hidden in the thick secondary forest on the slopes, and rougher paths between the tees and holes offer lots of diversions. The main Woodland Trail is dedicated to John Maré, a local trails activist. The Woodland Trail begins behind the interpretive signs and crosses the alder-shaded Red River on a footbridge. The path traverses up a slope forested with Sitka spruce and western hemlock, with evergreen huckleberry, salal, and some invasive ivy. Keep left at a spur that leads up to Pacific View Drive, and descend to cross a sedge swamp on the Red River to reach a junction at an old road track. Bear right here, and make five short switchbacks up through salal thickets and a clump of crocosmia. Stay on another road bed, and take the first trail leading left. This route takes you past disc golf tees and holes before dropping to the old road. Leave the road almost immediately to take another trail up, staying right at a junction a reaching a road track, where you’ll keep straight in a cedar woodland with a gully down to your right. Keep left at a bench and Hole 18 to reach a parking area at a skate park. Look for the wide graveled trail to your right, and follow this to another junction, where you can go left to the restrooms and play area at Crestline Park. Then take a trail leading right back into the woods, and keep right below Hole 2 to hike through salal to turn left again and then make another left to reach a boggy open area fringed with young shore pines. As you descend the slope, stay right at a very eroded old track to drop down a ridgeline past the 7th hole. When you reach Hole 8, a steep rooty trail leads down three funky sets of wooden steps to cross a footbridge and reach a road junction. To return to your vehicle, you'l
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