Hamilton Mountain-Hardy Creek Trail Junction
From Portland Hikers Field Guide
- Hikes including this location
- Hamilton Mountain Loop Hike (TH | <-- --> | LOG)
- Latitude: 45.64328
- Longitude: -122.01256
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- Elevation: 1247 feet
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Description
This junction marks the spot where hikers have the choice to continue to the right, up the more difficult, steeper, but shorter option up Hamilton Mountain, or instead go left up the longer, easier trail. Many hikers choose to make a loop out of it. The difficult side admittedly boasts much better views. Soon after the junction your path opens up to the expanse of the Columbia River Gorge, and affords a great vantage point of the tall, distinctive basaltic columns on the southern face of Hamilton Mountain. Meanwhile, the 'easy' choice ascends slowly alongside (but out of view of) Hardy Creek for a ways, then merges into a forest road.
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Guidebooks that cover this destination
- 60 Hikes within 60 Miles of Portland, by Paul Gerald
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