gation train returning to Portland from the 
Eagle Creek flag station. 
There is a Forest Service registering booth on 
the summit of Wauna Point. Visitors are re- 
quested to register their names. The last drink- 
ing water is near the 5-mile board. This is the 
best short trail trip from Bonneville and the 
Eagle Creek camp grounds. 
The Eagle Creek and Herman Creek Trail. 
The Eagle Creek trail is one of the costliest 
and best mountain trails in the West. For 
thousands of feet it has been cut through solid 
rock, and in one place goes behind a waterfall 
through a tunnel cut intothe mountain. The trip 
to Wahtum Lake over the Eagle Creek trail, re- 
turning over the Herman Creek trail, requires two 
days’ time. The distance to Wahtum Lake over 
the Eagle Creek trail is 13% Returning 
to the Columbia River highway over the Herman 
miles. 
Creek trail the distance is 11 miles. 
Schedule of Trip. 
Take the 7.30a. m. Oregon-Washington Railroad 
& Navigation train from Portland Union Station 
for Eagle Creek. The conductor must be requested 
to stop the train at Eagle Creek flag station. 
From Eagle Creek station follow the trail to 
the Columbia River highway and Eagle Creek 
camp grounds. Ascend the trail on the left 
bank of Eagle Creek. 
Points of interest on the Eagle Creek trail are 
Metlako Falls, 2 miles; Punchbowl Falls, 2% 
miles; High Bridge and Canyon, 3% miles; and 
Tunnel Falls, 614 miles. Walk to Camp Shelters, 
4% miles, where noon lunch may be eaten. The 
distance from this point to Wahtum Lake is 9 
miles. 
Arrival at Wahtum Lake will be early in the 
evening. Meals can sometimes be obtained at 
the Wahtum Lake Boy Scout lodge. Camp for 
the night on free Forest Service camp grounds 
and in Forest Service camp shelters on the south 
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shore of the lake. To return to the Columbia 
River highway, go east and north around the 
shores of Wathum Lake over the Herman Creek 
trail, which begins near the camp shelters at 
Wahtum Lake. The distance to the highway 
over this route is slightly less than the distance 
over the Eagle Creek trail. The Herman Creek 
trail goes to the Herman Creek Ranger Station 
on the Columbia River highway, where the 3.30 
p. m. automobile stages over the highway can be 
taken to Portland, or one may walk to Cascade 
Locks and return to Portland on the 3.50 p. m. 
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation train. 
Wahtum Lake is a beautiful small body of 
water, about half a mile long and not quite so 
wide, surrounded entirely by forested slopes 
untouched by forest fires. Excellent trails go 
Looking toward Wauna Point on the Eagle Creek trail 
