
Mile 5.3 - Water System Remnants
On the creek bank at the washout are traces of the original World War II water system. The rectangular concrete structure on the left was the chlorination station. Protruding from the bank to the right of the station are wood-stave water pipes wrapped with wire.
Mile 5.3 - Munitions Magazines (1942-1943)
When you reach the washout at the end of the road, look to your left across the river. The two black tunnel-like openings in the hillside are the entrances to munitions magazines known as elephant steel shelters or Armco huts. These structures were built of panels of heavy-gauge corrugated steel bolted together and covered with soil. Grass and willow soon grew over the soil, making the shelters very difficult to detect.