In Rockaway Beach there is an old forest area with a huge cedar tree. It has changed a lot over the years. We have had to hunt for a trailhead in the middle of a neighborhood where you feel like you're walking through someone's yard, and then bushwhack our way through dense forest to find the right place. Understandably, someone decided that wasn't a good idea, and now finally they've made an official trail and entrance and parking lot and everything. It's nice, but it was also really crowded every time we drove by it, and has definitely lost the "we-just-discovered-this-place" feel it used to have, so that's a little sad. Still a fun area to stop by, though! And the new boardwalk trails are nice.
The hike is mostly all boardwalk now, but there's a little of the original trail at the end, and that's the best part. It's so nice to walk right down among the ferns and fallen trees.
Little Teddy by the big tree. Here is little Ky and Seb and Junie by it.
Wouldn't it have been amazing to see Oregon back when all the forests looked like this?
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