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Mount Hood's Grasshopper Fire Closure Shrinks to 43 Trails and 23 Roads
An October 1 order covers the Barlow and Hood River districts through December 31. Zigzag and Surveyor's Ridge trails are open.
Mount Hood National Forest updated the Grasshopper Fire closure on October 1, and it is smaller than the version this paper last reported. The new order covers National Forest land on the Barlow and Hood River ranger districts east of Mount Hood and runs through December 31 unless the forest lifts it sooner. Our status band had still been showing the old count of 54 trails and 24 roads.
The order now lists 43 trails and 23 forest roads. Trail 678, Zigzag, and Trail 688, Surveyor's Ridge, are open, and Forest Road 44 is open from the eastern forest boundary to its junction with Road 4430. Closed trails include Lookout Mountain, Badger Creek, Bonney Meadows, Boulder Lake, Fifteenmile, Gumjuwac and Divide.
Campgrounds and trailheads inside the area stay closed, among them Badger Lake, Bonney Meadows, Fifteenmile, Little Badger, Underhill, Bonney Crossing, Knebal Springs and Pebble Ford campgrounds, the Badger Creek, Boulder Lake and School Canyon trailheads, and the Billy Bob and Pocket Creek sno-parks. Private and state inholdings are not covered.
Separately, the Crane Creek bridge on the Barlow Road, Forest Road 3530, has collapsed. The road is open but cannot be driven end to end. The forest's fire danger is High. Wasco County posts evacuation levels on its perimeter map.
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