Oregon Hikers

Last weekend my daughter and I hiked to Jaw Bone, crossed Opal Creek and headed further out along the trial to go to Cedar Flats. About 1/3 miles from Opal Pool the trail ended where the bridge used to be! Can you still hike to Cedar a Flats? If so, where is the trail? Thank you!

was there snow?

Very warm. Not even close to snow.

This is the most recent trip report to that area: http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... =8&t=20087

My brother and I did this earlier this summer and we ended up going to the old cedar flats crossing area, fording the creek and climbing over a lot of blow down on the way up the old trail. I think it may be accessible from jawbone staying on that side of the creek the whole time now. There seemed to be a nicer trail that the old debris covered trail ran into just up hill on that eastern side of the creek. It seemed to continue back towards jawbone.
Dan

The Field Guide definitely needs updating! There's a new trail which does not cross Opal creek where that bridge used to be but stays on the same side of the creek all the way. I haven't done this yet but have been checking descriptions in hopes of going back (I was last there while the old bridge was still good). Here's a report on the new trail from early 2014: http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/vie ... ts&start=0

Matt Reeder put in a note about the bridge outage and I have added another note just to warn that the current route is not as described. I'll rewrite the Field Guide entry if/when I go back there.

I was there in June and can confirm: from the bridge that crosses the creek right above Opal Pool, the trail stays on the east bank all the way to Cedar Flats, passing Flume Creek Falls along the way. There's no trace of the old bridge anymore.


I'll leave it to someone else to revamp the full description, but for now, I added an updated map to the page.