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.
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.
A First Day Hike at a nearby state park turns into a minor obsession with Civilian Conservation Corps history there.
Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean, Cape Disappointment is a blend of stunning oceanfront scenery, atmospheric coastal forest, and millennia of history. Hike over the headlands, wander among wind-bent Sitka spruce, ponder centuries of human activity, or just settle down on a piece of driftwood and watch the sun sink below the watery horizon.
Beacon Rock has it all: history, geology, nature, culture. It’s a crown jewel of the Washington state park system.
State park #3 is named for early settler Matilda Jackson. Old-growth trees offer a quiet place to contemplate the largely unsung lives of pioneer women.