clatsop state forest – Wild Columbia County

One of the wildest creeks in Northwest Oregon

Upper Plympton Creek Falls waterfall Clatsop State Forest northwest oregon

Picturesque ravines drop hundreds of yards from ridge to water. Old growth giants tower above the creek. Waterfalls burst into mammoth basalt cauldrons. You wouldn’t think such a place existed in Columbia County. And it doesn’t. But a mile outside the county border, hidden in the forested hills above Westport, runs a remarkable stretch ofContinue reading “One of the wildest creeks in Northwest Oregon”