WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon — In this week's Let's Get Out There, we head to Washington County to check in on a new trail in the works to connect Banks and the coast. A railroad isn’t typically ...

The 21-mile Banks Vernonia State Trail is paved and open to hikers, bikers and equestrian use. Since it was an old railroad, users can pass over old, rehabilitated rail trestles.

A washed out railroad line could become a trail connecting Banks to the Oregon coast. (Photo courtesy of Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad) CORRECTION APPENDED A proposed 86-mile trail through Oregon ...

The Salmonberry Trail will not only be a scenic journey from Banks through the Coast Range and to Tillamook, but it would follow a historic path along old railroad tracks.

Most Banks leaders are for the project, which would transform the unused Port of Tillamook Bay railroad into a multipurpose trail. Most Banks leaders are for the project, ...

The Banks-Vernonia State Trail didn't come about by accident. Beginning in the 1920s, trains hauled logs and lumber over this route from the Oregon-American mill in Vernonia to Portland.

The Salmonberry Trail would be the 22nd stretch of railroad turned into a bike path in Oregon. The most famous is the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, which runs along 22 miles of modest Washington ...

The 21-mile Banks Vernonia State Trail is paved and open to hikers, bikers and equestrian use. Since it was an old railroad, ...

VERNONIA, Ore. (AP) - There’s a state of mind known to long-distance hikers best described, I suppose, as “autopilot.” It’s the moment when walking becomes so fluid you only consider the ...