Salmonberry Trail: Image provided by Salmonberry Trail Foundation

You're invited to join ASLA on a tour of the Salmonberry Trail!

Touted as 'Oregon's Next Great Adventure', the Salmonberry Trail is a proposed 82-mile hiking, walking, and biking trail that will connect the Portland Metro area to the Oregon Coast. An abandoned rail line turned into a 'Rails-to-Trails' project, the Salmonberry Trail traverses through spectacular landscapes. Starting in Banks, the trail travels through the Willamette Valley, connects to Stub Stewart State Park, climbs into remote deep forests and river canyons, crosses 67 trestles, five bridges, and 10 tunnels, follows the Nehalem River to coastal towns and past estuaries, and finishes at the Tillamook Creamery. The Salmonberry Trail Foundation is tasked with implementing the vision - working with communities, partners, and Tribes - to turn the vision into reality.

Here is a video introduction to the Salmonberry Trail, a link to their website, and a one-pager overview of the trail.

Salmonberry Trail Foundation leadership will guide the tour, discussing the challenges - and opportunities - related to key issues: health/safety, design, and landscape and planting.

Please see details below and RSVP to register.

When: 4th of October 2025.

Meeting Point: Banks Billiards, 13711 NW Main St., Banks, OR 97106.

Meeting Time: 9.45 a.m., departing at 10 a.m. to Manning Trailhead.

Start Time: Walking tour at Manning Trailhead off Highway 26 at 10.30 a.m. The tour will last 1.5 hours.

Tour Guides: Salmonberry Trail Foundation leadership team

Happy Hour: TBD, Banks, Oregon

RSVP for the Event and Happy Hour sponsored by All Play Systems; October 1st, 2025. Space limited to the first 20 RSVPs.

Registration link coming soon.