Recreating the Columbia River Highway

2017 Eagle Creek Fire

April 28, 2020

2017 was a complicated time in my life. When the fire started up and through the early recovery, life was keeping my busy in other areas and I had little access to the Gorge. Unfortunately, I missed an opportunity to capture the fire and its after effects, and will need to be relying on outside sources for the first couple years of the recovery in the Gorge.

Tom Kloster has done an excellent job documenting the fire on his blog. Check out his posts in the Links section below.

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3 years later: See regrowth after Eagle Creek FireA photographer with the group Green Oregon captured timelapses of the regrowth.

First Look at the Gorge FireOfficially the Eagle Creek Fire in the Columbia River Gorge is still fully involved, now at 35,000 acres and just 10 percent contained by firefighters. Rain in the forecast for the coming week sugg…

Fire in WyEast CountryOh, if only our lives spanned 800 years instead of 80! No doubt we would see (and zealously protect) our world differently with the benefit of that long perspective. And it turns out that Bowhead w…

After the Fire: A Closer Look (Part 1 of 2) State Park and Forest Service rangers and local trail volunteers have been busy this winter assessing the impact of the Eagle Creek Fire. A few photos have been released from their trips into the …

After the Fire: A Closer Look (Part 2 of 2)This is the second article in a two-part series that explores a remarkable set of stunning, often startling aerial photos captured by the State of Oregon in early December. Their purpose was to ass…

After the Fire: What Recovery Looks LikeRock-star trail volunteer (and friend of the WyEast Blog!) Nate Zaremskiy has shared another update on the forest recovery in the upper Eagle Creek canyon, at the heart of the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire…

Eagle Creek Trail: One Year After the FireSeptember marked the one-year anniversary of the Eagle Creek Fire, the now-infamous, human-caused burn that charred 50,000 acres on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge. Today, much of the b…

Restore the Metlako Viewpoint?The Eagle Creek canyon is the undisputed jewel of the Columbia River Gorge, thanks to a string of dramatic waterfalls and a precarious, cliff-hugging trail built over 100 years ago by visionary For…

Cliff Collapse at Punch Bowl Falls!Sometime over the past few months, a huge basalt wall just below iconic Punch Bowl Falls collapsed. Today, a huge debris pile of truck-size boulders have rerouted Eagle Creek and changed this idyll…

The Waterfalls of “Heaven and Hell”Mist Falls from Benson State Park Hidden in plain sight near the west entrance to the Columbia River Gorge are a string of waterfalls that flow from the slopes of Devils Rest and Angels Rest, yet a…

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