Gnat Creek  - #1059
10 K - Rated 3


Walk Oregon Challenge --   'G'; Waterfall; Four F's-Forest

Registration:  Columbia Memorial Hospital,  2111 Exchange Street, Astoria, Oregon

Remote start:  Driving directions to start of walk at either registration point.

Note:  You may register and stamp books at either Astoria or Clatskanie.

     If you register at Astoria, then you will drive east on US 30 to Gnat Creek Fish Hatchery to do the walk.  Then you will continue east on US 30 to the Mini-Mart in Clatskanie  where you will turn in your start envelope and stamp your book.

     If you register at Clatskanie, then you will drive west on US 30 to Gnat Creek Fish Hatchery to do the walk.  Then you will drive west on US 30  to Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria to turn in your start envelope and stamp your book.

Event Info:  Daily, dawn to dusk.  No wheelchairs or strollers.  Water and restrooms available at either registration point.  There is a restroom in the Headquarters Building at the Hatchery.   Carry water. This 10k route (new for 2008) at Gnat Creek Fish Hatchery is mostly on a forested trail in Clatsop State Forest.  You will see a working fish hatchery and two waterfalls.