Banks-Vernonia State Trail Maps

Banks, OR

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Banks-Vernonia State Trail Description

Where the railroad once was king, the woods now reign again. A century ago, this railway made life better and easier for early Oregonians and the burgeoning lumber industry that fueled their prosperity in the northwest corner of the state. But while the trains are long gone and their tracks dismantled, the path they carved through the wilderness remains, having since been put to splendid use. The Banks-Vernonia State Trail (BVT) stands today as Oregon’s first rail-to-trail, and the space once allotted for the Industrial Age’s biggest, most propulsive machines has been handed back over to natur

Coordinates
: 45.733, -123.191
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Official Link
: Banks-Vernonia State Trail