This Region brings together Portland and Vancouver with Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, and the communities stretching east along the river and the Cascade foothills. It reflects the way people on both sides of the Columbia use, care for, organize around, and travel between a shared set of forests, rivers, cliffs, trail systems, parks, and working landscapes.
Use this Region for locally grounded Discussions about trail conditions, stewardship projects, outdoor clubs, public lands, access, volunteer opportunities, regional events, waterways, route questions, and the practical connections between the metropolitan area and the surrounding landscapes.
This Region includes:
Oregon: Clackamas, Hood River, Multnomah, Wasco
Washington: Clark, Klickitat, Skamania
Make Discussions specific enough to be useful. Name the trail system, park, river reach, community, land manager, road corridor, or part of the Region involved. Conditions near Portland or Vancouver may have little in common with conditions high on Mount Hood or farther east in the Gorge.
Local knowledge matters most when it remains connected to local responsibility. Share what you know, distinguish firsthand observations from secondhand information, and point people toward the land managers, stewardship organizations, clubs, and community groups already doing the work.