1.6 hr
Overview
The short Cedar Butte Trail takes hikers to a former lookout site in the western Coast Range. Views are restricted as trees have grown up since the lookout was dismantled in the early 1950s. You’ll be following a segment of the historic trail that serviced the lookout since the end of the 19th century. The forested landscape has been logged in sections and also burned over many times. The first major recorded fire here was the 1918 Cedar Butte Fire, which scorched 40,000 acres. Then the three major conflagrations of the Tillamook Burn swept through the area in the 1930s and 1940s. The area shelters mobile herds of elk, and you will catch glimpses of the rugged ridges above the forks of the Kilchis River.
Trail Stats
2.6 km
238 m
886 m
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