Changes in Trail Closures
Incident: Gnarl Ridge Wildfire
Released: 8/20/2008
Several trails that were previously closed are now open. The newly opened trails are: Timberline Trail #600, Tilly Jane Trail #600A, Wagon Road Trail #642, Tilly Jane Ski Trail #643, Pollalie Ridge Trail #643A, Tamanawas Falls Trail #650A, Tamanawas Tie Trail #650B, East Fork Trail #650, Sahalie Falls Trail #667C, Umbrella Falls Trail #667. Other sites/road that are open include Cloud Cap Road #3512, Cloud Cap Campground, and Tilly Jane Campground.
Trails remaining closed are: Lamberson Spur Trail #644, Elk Meadows Trail #645 from the Mt. Hood Wilderness boundary at the south end (near Clark Creek) to the junction with the Tamanawas Tie Trail #650B, Elk Meadows Perimeter Trail #645A, Bluegrass Ridge Trail #647, Gnarl Ridge Trail #652, Gnarl Ridge Cutoff Trail #652A, and Newton Creek Trail #646. Little John Snowpark also remains closed.
Many roads to the west of Highway 35 and east of Bluegrass Ridge continue to be closed to motorized traffic with signs and/or a gate: Forest Road 3520 system (3520 and the following spurs: 620, 622, 623, 670, 671); and Forest Road 3500-671. These roads were washed out by the November 2006 flood and remain closed.
