PLEASE BLM Salem District • Leash and pick up after your pet. • Leave your picnic site cleaner than you Wildwood found it. R E C R E A T I O N S I T E • Respect others and behave courteously. If your actions create a problem for Come Experience the Magic Welcome to Wildwood! others, you will be asked to leave. of Rivers and the Miracle of Salmon • Amplified music is not allowed. Heart of the Upper Sandy River Watershed • Lock your car and keep valuables out of sight. ildwood is nestled in the forested Astoria • No skateboarding 30 foothills of the Cascade Mountains, 26 Pendleton • Stay on trails to avoid trampling Portland 84 Tillamook The Dalles vegetation and disturbing wildlife. along the spectacular Wild and 101 N 197 395 84 W 5 97 Scenic Salmon River. Wildwood is a day-use A Salem • DON'T bring glass containers near E Wildwood the river. facility located 40 miles east of Portland, off U.S. C Newport Recreation 26 Baker O City Madras Highway 26, just past the 39 mile marker. Albany Site 26 • DON'T fish, swim, or wade in waters that 20 Eugene Bend are restricted — including at or near the Florence Vale underwater viewing chamber. 20 C Managed by the USDI Bureau of Land I F O R E G O N Coos Bay Burns I Roseburg Management, this 550-acre forest park C 97 GENERAL INFORMATION AND FEES A 5 features Cascade Streamwatch and Wetland P 101 395 95 The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wildwood Boardwalk interpretive trails and offers access Grants Pass Medford Recreation Site is open from mid-March through Klamath Lakeview Thanksgiving weekend (8:00 am to sunset). Upon to the pristine Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness. 199 Falls entering Wildwood, please purchase a daily or Wildwood also provides group and family picnic annual vehicle permit. Wildwood annual passes sites, a playground, and a ball field. Come to Table of Contents can also be purchased at the Mt. Hood Information Center. Wildwood to explore and learn about nature, play, or just relax. Area History 2 Group facilities can be reserved from mid-March through Thanksgiving weekend. Visitors using group Wild and Scenic Salmon River 3 facilities are still required to purchase a daily vehicle permit. For more information about making A Great Place to Start 4 reservations, contact park staff at (503) 622-3696, the BLM’s Salem District Office at (503) 375-5646, Map of Wildwood 5 or go to www.blm.gov/or/districts/salem/index.htm HOME OF BLM/OR/WA/GI-07/035-1122.33 Facilities and Activities 6 CASCADE STREAMWATCH Cascade Streamwatch Trail 8 NEAR SANDY, OREGON Salmon and Science 10 Wetland Boardwalk Trail 12 Wildwood’s Web of Life 14 A partial list of the mammals and RIVERS AND STREAMS: Common Area History birds of the Mt. Hood area has been Merganser, Harlequin Duck, Osprey, prepared by local citizens and is Spotted Sandpiper, Belted Kingfisher, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Northern Rough- Geologically,Wildwood is located on both old and presented here as a reference. young rocks. The Cascade foothills to the south were Winged Swallow,American Dipper formed tens of millions of years ago and many of these MAMMALS MARSHES AND WETLANDS: Great Blue ancient volcanic peaks have eroded away. In comparison, Heron, Mallard,Wood Duck, Hooded Oregon’s highest peak, Mt. Hood, is quite young. AQUATIC AND RIPARIAN HABITATS: Water Merganser,American Coot, Sandhill Crane, Mt. Hood was still active when early settlers arrived. Shrew, Pacific Marsh Shrew, Shrew-Mole, Virginia Rail, Sora, Killdeer, Spotted Volcanic flow and ash fall occurred in this area less than Little Brown Myotis (bat), Mountain Beaver, Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Belted Beaver,Water Vole,Townsend's Vole, Pacific Kingfisher, Downy Woodpecker,Warbling 200 years ago. Jumping Mouse, Muskrat, Mink, River Otter Vireo, Cedar Waxwing,Yellow Warbler, Varied Thrush Lincoln’s Sparrow, Red-Winged Blackbird, Streams and rivers have long been places where people FORESTS AND WOODLANDS: Hoary Bat, Brown-Headed Cowbird FORESTS: Northern Goshawk, Cooper's settle, camp and use local resources. Prior to white Long-Legged Myotis (bat), Pika, Chickaree, Hawk, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Blue Grouse, settlement, small bands of Native Americans harvested Western Gray Squirrel, Northern Flying YOUNG FORESTS AND ROADSIDES: Band-Tailed Pigeon, Western Screech Owl, Squirrel,Western Red-Backed Vole, Red Red-Tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Northern Saw-Whet Owl, Northern huckleberries, hunted game, and caught fish in the area Tree Vole, Creeping Vole, Porcupine, Gray Ruffed Grouse, Mountain Quail, Great Pygmy- Owl, Barred Owl, Spotted around Wildwood. Elders of the Confederated Tribes of Fox, Black Bear, Elk Horned Owl, Rufous Hummingbird, Owl, Hairy Woodpecker, Black-Backed Warm Springs identified a traditional campsite along the Northern Flicker, Western Wood-Pewee, Woodpecker, Northern Three-Toed Salmon River just east of Wildwood. In historic times MIXED UPLAND HABITATS: Opossum, Olive-Sided Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Woodpecker, Red-Breasted Sapsucker, Coast Mole, Big Brown Bat, Brush Rabbit, (early 1900's), tribal members returning to the Warm Hammond's Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Snowshoe Hare, California Ground Squirrel, Black-Capped Chickadee, Bushtit, House Hammond's Flycatcher, Pacific-Slope Springs Reservation from the hops fields of the Deer Mouse, Bushy-Tailed Woodrat, Wren, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Western Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Hutton's Willamette Valley, camped at this site and picked ripening Western Pocket Gopher, Coyote, Red Bluebird, Townsend's Solitaire, American Vireo, Common Raven, Chestnut-Backed huckleberries. Fox, Raccoon, Long-Tailed Weasel, Ermine, Robin, Orange-Crowned Warbler, Nashville Chickadee, Mountain Chickadee, Red- Striped Skunk, Spotted Skunk, Bobcat, Warbler, MacGillivray's Warbler, Common Breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, In 1845, Samuel K. Barlow and Joel Palmer looked for a Mountain Lion, Black-Tailed Deer Yellowthroat, Wilson's Warbler, Spotted Winter Wren, Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Towhee, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Varied route to the Willamette Valley to avoid the treacherous Before there were chain saws, the felling of a single old- White-Crowned Sparrow, Oregon Junco, Thrush, Audubon's Warbler, Black-Throated water descent through the Columbia Gorge. The route growth tree could take days. Note the wooden plank Lazuli Bunting, Brown-Headed Cowbird, Gray Warbler, Hermit Warbler, Western they established blazed a trail around the south side of (springboard) the logger is standing on. Giant stumps with House Finch,American Goldfinch Tanager, Chipping Sparrow, Oregon Junco, Mt. Hood. Although they had to abandon their wagons, springboard notches are common throughout Wildwood. Black-Headed Grosbeak, Cassin's Finch, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, Red Crossbill, several immigrant families were able to complete the Company built a sawmill complex at Wildwood. The Evening Grosbeak journey on foot. In 1846, Barlow returned to improve the Salmon River was diverted to make holding ponds Douglas Squirrel route and establish the Barlow Toll Road. The Oregon (now Wildwood wetlands) for timber. The logging OPEN SKY: Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Bald BIRDS Trail alternate route runs through the edge of Wildwood, company also built a steam-powered sawmill, a bridge, Eagle, Red-Tailed Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, paralleling U.S.Highway 26 and crossing at the confluence American Kestrel, Common Nighthawk, two homes, a machine shop, a cone burner, a cook- LAKES AND PONDS: Common Loon, of the Salmon and Sandy rivers. After traveling more Vaux's Swift,Tree Swallow,Violet-Green house and three bunkhouses near the Old Mill Trail Horned Grebe,Western Grebe, Great Swallow than 1,800 miles, the pioneers were relieved to be near (See map on page 5). Two families and 45-50 employees Blue Heron, Double-Crested Cormorant, their destination. lived on the site. The steam boilers for the mill were Canada Goose, Mallard,Wood Duck, Lesser HIGH MOUNTAINS: Clark's Nutcracker, fueled by sawdust.The mill burned down in 1932, but Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Horned Lark,American Pipit, Rock Wren, If you lived in Wildwood in the early 1900’s, the present- Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch was rebuilt. It operated for several more years before Hooded Merganser, Ruddy Duck, Ring- day U.S. Highway 26 would have been a crude road, Necked Duck, Common Goldeneye, being sold in 1937 to Bell Lumber Company. A year providing access to the Columbia River Gorge and the Barrow's Goldeneye, Osprey, Bald Eagle, BUILDINGS AND NEAR People: Rock later, it closed and the county auctioned the property Dove,American Crow, Cliff Swallow, Barn giant Douglas-fir forests surrounding Mt. Hood. Between American Coot, Ring-Billed Gull, California for unpaid taxes. The machinery and structures were Swallow, European Starling, Brewer's Gull, Caspian Tern, Belted Kingfisher, Cliff 1926 and 1944,Wildwood and the surrounding areas subsequently removed and the bridge washed out in Blackbird Swallow, Barn Swallow, Northern Rough- were logged. In 1930, the Bruns and Jensrud Logging the 1964 flood. 2 Winged Swallow Pileated Woodpecker 15 Wildwood’s Web of Life The Wild and Scenic Salmon River The place where a plant or animal lives is called a habitat. Experience the spectacular Salmon River - a national changing in response to both natural At Wildwood, a habitat may be as small as a rotting log treasure - with its abundant anadromous fish runs, many forces and human influences. on the forest floor where a salamander or a patch of recreation opportunities, and magnificent scenery. The moss may spend its entire life. It may be as large as an 33-mile Salmon River begins in the Palmer Snowfield A watershed is also an area of land that channels water entire forest, where a Pileated Woodpecker might range on Mt. Hood and ends at its confluence with the Sandy through small streams toward a major stream or river.