The people of the Gifford Pinchot invite you to experience and enjoy your National Forest, and also to participate in its stewardship. To find information on your specific area of interest, scroll down to the current conditions table below the map on our Recreation Page. Find more information about Mount St. Helens recreation and Mount Adams recreation.
Located in southwest Washington State, the Gifford Pinchot National Forest encompasses 1,368,300 acres and includes the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument established by Congress in 1982.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest has something for everyone. Read more...
A wildflower-lined mountain road with pot-holes and check-dams made for a slow trip to the trail where the Vancouver NAACP Rites of Passage youth were at work on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
The Gifford Pinchot is world-renowned for our fall colors. They tend to peak in late September and into November depending on weather. The viewing window will be very short this year!
This sale consists of trees of insufficient quality for saw timber. In the past, dead trees were burned at costs up to $700 an acre. Instead, it is now sold as biomass.
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