Wilson River Hike
Six and a half miles
5/23/2017

Start at Jones Creek Camp Ground (Diamond Mill OHV Area)
(located passed mile poat 23 on Hwy 6 toward Tillamook)

End Kings Mountain Trailhead
(Located at about mile post 21 on Hwy 6)


Trail sign at Kings Mountain Trailhead





The group





The views

Some of the flowers along the trail















Monkey Fower
Yellow Monkeyflower
ยท Mimulus guttatus

















Fairy Laterns
Also called Largeflower Fairybells, Smith's Fairybells
(Prosartes smithii)

Similar to Fairy Bells but
Fairy Bells flare out more















Is this
Western Bracken Fern
Pteridium aquilinum,







What is it

Possibilities
Foam Flower (Tiarella cordifolia)
Dwarf Ginseng (Panax trifolius)
Labrador Tea Ledium groenlandicum
Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
Ninebark (Physocarpus opuifolius)
Corn Salad Lamb's Lettuce (Valerianella locusta)
Sweet Cicely (Osmorhiza clayton)


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Directions to the trailhead

1) Take hwy 26 to hwy 6 toward Banks and Tillamook.
2) Drive passed King Mountain Trailhead (at about milepost 21)
3) Go passed mile post 23 to sign for
      Jones Creek Camp Ground
      Smith Homestead
      Diamond Mill OHV Area
4) Turn in towad campgroung and cross bridge over Wilson River
5) After 0.2 miles turn right on "North Fork Road -- see signs to
      Diamond Mill Off-Highway Vehicle Site
6) Drtive on Dirt road for 1.2 miles to sign for "Diamond Mill Off-Highway site"
7) turn righ and go 0.2 miles to parking area

















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