Badger Creek

Directions:
From highway 197, turn west at Tygh Valley. Follow Wamic Market Road through Wamic and onto Rock Creek Dam Road. Look for the sign for Rock Creek Reservoir, and turn onto road 4810 and after a short distance to road 4811. After about 1 mile, take another right onto road 2710 (there was no sign when we came through) until reaching Bonney Crossing Campground. Park here, the trail starts just past the bridge.

The Trail:
The Badger Creek Trail starts out where the desert sagebrush of the east, meets the forests of the Cascades. The trail gives the hiker a great variety of landscapes while transitioning through the different types of enviornments. We only were able to get out a few miles because we felt like exploring the rocky canyon walls surrounding the creek. We hiked the trail in the middle of winter, and I thought that it was a great hike. Supposedly, the trail is even better during the spring and summer months when an array of wildflowers carpet the canyon.

For more hikes in the Badger Creek region, visit Ken Denniston's Badger Creek Wilderness Page