9.0 hr
Overview
The Banks-Vernonia State Trail is open along its entire length to hikers, cyclists, and horses. Now that the whole trail has been paved, it offers less of an appeal to hikers than during the years of the trail's initial development when the entire central section was a walk along an abandoned rail bed. However, families and those out for a quick escape from the city will enjoy the interface here between the mixed and regenerating forest of the Coast Range's eastern foothills and various isolated farm communities along the way. Highlights include the two remaining big trestles at Buxton and Tophill, crossings of the West Fork Dairy Creek, Beaver Creek, and the Nehalem River, and some brilliant color in the fall.
Trail Stats
33.3 km
250 m
285 m
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