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The Salmonberry Trail corridor follows the old Pacific Railway and Navigation Co. line.
It starts in Banks, cuts across remote areas of the Coast Range, follows the Salmonberry
River, then the Nehalem River to the coast, where it turns south to Tillamook.
The rail line was washed out by floods in 1991 and was rebuilt at a cost of $50 million.
It flooded again in 2007 and remains unusable, with twisted rails and ties strewn in
"a mess,".
This project is still in the planning stages so it will likely take several years
to turn this concept into reality. I'll be posting updates to this page as they
become available. If you remember, the
Banks-Vernonia Linear Trail was pretty
"primative" when I first started documenting it in 2010. It's now a mostly completed,
dandy hiking trail. Ditto for the
Crown Zellerbach Trail.
According to my Nat Geo map, it looks like the rail line starts at the Banks
Trailhead for the Banks-Vernonia Linear Park. I've been down this way before...
stopped at the point where the rail line crosses Highway 47 just past Buxton.
Lacking any real documentation, it appears that this trail will start at the
Banks-Vernonia Linear Park Trail's Banks, Oregon trailhead. Note the rail line
just to the left of the parking area.
Timber to Banks.
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