Trail Talk Thursday #12

This week's trail is located at Silver Falls State Park and is known as the Campground Trail. At roughly 1 mile in length, it encircles half of the campground with a trail head near the Ampitheater. As visitors walk along this trail, they can take in the sights of wildflowers, sounds of native birds, and may even see a few salmonberries ripe for the picking. A small stream drains a basin located between this trail and the campground and one can see that beavers had once been at work damming it up, yet no beaver lodge can be seen from the trail. A blind located next to one of these dams allows visitors to peer into a beaver pond without scaring the birds away.

The beaver pond between the trail and the campground.