Located twenty miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon, and the northern Willamette River valley, the Mt. Hood National Forest extends south from the strikingly beautiful Columbia River Gorge across more than sixty miles of forested mountains, lakes and streams to Olallie Scenic Area, a high lake basin under the slopes of Mt. Jefferson. Read more
Twenty-two new bridges were recently constructed on trails which serve hikers, mountain bikers. and equestrians. The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funded the work simultaneously putting people to work.
This summer, the Rock Creek Day Use Area on the east side of the Mt. Hood National Forest will be closed to visitors through Memorial Day weekend until September 1, 2012. The closure is to protect a pair of bald eagles nesting in a large ponderosa pine tree in the middle of the picnic area. These bald eagles have returned to the same nest for the last three years.
In 1988, Congress designated 47 miles of the Clackamas River, from its origins in the Olallie Lake Scenic Area to Big Cliff, as part of the Federal Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Mt. Hood National Forest Supervisor recently made a decision to group 28 previously Forest Service managed recreation sites with other sites successfully operated by concessionaires.
Timothy Lake is one of the most popular family camping and fishing destinations in the Mt. Hood National Forest. The lake's south shore features four developed campgrounds and boat ramps.
Located twenty miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon, and the northern Willamette River valley, the Mt. Hood National Forest extends south from the strikingly beautiful Columbia River Gorge across more than sixty miles of forested mountains, lakes and streams to Olallie Scenic Area, a high lake basin under the slopes of Mt. Jefferson. 
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