Showing posts with label parks in oregon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parks in oregon. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2013

Oxbow Park

Unless you live in the Metro Area, you maybe pleasantly surprised with the selection of cool places to hike that are close to Portland, Oregon.

For one, look into Oxbow Park with its twelve miles of trails. It's a tad east of Portland proper and is located in the Sandy River Gorge with a Gresham, Oregon address. It sits on one thousand acres which also includes camping.

My wife and I haven't hiked all 12 miles but we have hiked quite a ways along one of the Sandy River trails. It was an absolutely gorgeous hike!

And, here are just a few of the things we saw along the river hike:

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park

Oxbow Park


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Monday, May 21, 2012

Munson Creek Falls

Munson Creek Falls
The tallest waterfall in the Oregon Coast Range is Munson Creek Falls at 319 feet. It's located just a tad south of Tillamook off of 101. (No...the above shot is not of the Falls!)

Once you get off the highway, getting to it can be a little bit of a task, meaning dodging around great big potholes.  You have to be on the alert for the obstacle course! 

That's not a complaint it's a warning, it means you have to go slow or you will be replacing axles, tires, front ends and other things if you don't cool it. Plus, you have to be on the lookout for folks coming the opposite way. 'Tis one way traffic with, maybe two turnoffs along a long stretch of road.

Once you get to the parking area, the hike to the Falls is a piece of cake. Viewing the Falls in its entirety is not a piece of cake, however. There is a lot of foliage in the way. You can get a pretty good shot of the top of the Falls though.

Most of the photos here are of Munson Creek and not the Falls. The photo of the Falls I have altered because it looked like every other photo of the Falls that has been posted on the net.

For the techies, I shot bracketed shots with a Pentax DSLR...-2EV-0EV+2EV. Converted RAW and tonemapped in Photomatix and finalized in PSE. In some shots, I have a little blur in the foliage because of wind.

Munson Creek Falls

Munson Creek Falls

Munson Creek Falls

Munson Creek Falls
  
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