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  • Tall Trees Access Road and the Skunk Cabbage Trail Road are CLOSED to vehicles.

    Effective June 3, 2013, these closures are necessary due to key vacancies in park staffing, including heavy equipment operators required to grade and maintain these roads. Access to the Tall Trees Grove is still available via 8 mile hike. More »

  • Miners Ridge and Ossagon backcountry camps closed indefinitely.

    Backpacker sites avail. during summer only at Gold Bluffs Beach Campground (8 sites avail.; free permit req'd; $5 fee paid on site) and year-round at Elk Prairie Campground (hiker/biker sites avail., first-come, first-served; $5 fee paid on site). More »

Howland Hill Outdoor School

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Howland Hill Outdoor School Lodge
 
 
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Dining area and restroom
 
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Inside the kitchen
 
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Cabin and cabin interior
 
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Cabin interior
 
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Campfire ring and What Is An Animal?
 
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Salmon survival game and checking out a nurse log
 
parachute games and I Spy
 
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Stream study, ranger and student, trail work
 
journaling, microscoping, hiking back from Mill Creek
Journaling, microscoping, hiking back from Mill Creek
 
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Spruce classroom, Create A Park, Nickerson Ranch Trail
 
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Woodpile, trail into the school setting, Geology I at the lodge
 
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Restroom in the parking lot and clivis toilets
 

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

The Columbia Lily, also known as Tiger Lily, colors the road sides and forest edges with brilliant yellow-orange blossoms from May through August. The stem is two to three feet tall and has several whorls of long, narrow leaves.