"Rainbow Lake is a reservoir located along Oregon Highway 30, approximately at Multnomah Channel "River Mile" 17. The Logie Trail runs along the south side of the lake and Morgan Road runs along the north side."

There was a restaurant here that would fry up fish you caught in the lake. It was destroyed when US 30 was "improved".

Lorene Dunsmoor, "Some History of North Skyline Ridge"

It was in the early 1940's that the dam was put in at the foot of Logie and a lake was formed from the stream from the foot hills. It was known as Rainbow Lake, and Mr. & Mrs. Louie Anderson ran it for several years. It was very popular. You could fish and they would fry it for you. They were there until they widened Highway 30 (or St. Helens Road) and they cut unto what was the restaurant. It has been missed by many friends including myself.

For years in the summer and fall we would have a double rainbow and it always seemed to end at the Lake.

The lake is real deep with many huge logs and stumps in the bottom. To my knowledge it was never cleared just filled with water from the hills. The newspaper used to call the hills "Little Upstart" or Tuality Mountains, of late they have been called the West Hills, which takes in the entire ridge towards Portland.

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