Rainbow Falls State Park – state parks quest #39
The only traditional state park in the Willapa Hills is home to one of the region’s last stands of old-growth forest and some lovely CCC handiwork.
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Willapa Hills State Park Trail – state parks quest #36
When I moved to Washington nearly three decades ago, I quickly acquired a small collection of books about the maritime Northwest. One of those books was Robert Michael Pyle’s Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, about the Willapa Hills. This region of southwest Washington, bounded by the Pacific to the west, the Olympic Mountains to the north, the Puget Trough to the east, and the Columbia River to the south, has few features that inspire…