Welcome to the Mt. Hood National Forest

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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. Learn more.

Recent News

• Mt. Hood National Forest Issues Decision on Volcanic Monitoring Stations on Mt. Hood

  Release Date: Aug 16, 2019  

• Mt. Hood National Forest Recreation Events Open Season Set to Begin on September 1

  Release Date: Aug 15, 2019  

Features

2018 Mt Hood Annual Report

View a summary of work we accomplished together with our many partners and collaborators in the past year in order to care for this special place & serve local communities.

Spotlights

Bull Run Watershed Annual Report

We partner with the Portland Water Bureau to manage the Bull Run Watershed. View our joint annual report describing work planned for 2019 and updates on completed projects. 

Mt. Hood Wild & Scenic Rivers Planning Process

Learn about the Comprehensive River Management Planning process and access our interactive story map and helpful information.  The River Values Report is available now. 

2018 Regional Report

The 2018 Pacific Northwest Annual Report highlights many of the agency's accomplishments and contributions across Oregon and Washington.

Story Map: A New Way to Tell the Story of a Landscape

The North Clackamas Intergrated Resource Project is in the preliminary planning stages. It is a proposed vegetation managment project on the Clackamas River Ranger District.

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