The city of Forest Grove is opening the city's watershed, locating in the Gales Creek area, to a guided tour on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
The city said space is limited and registration is required by Sept. 23 to secure a spot.
Gales Creek Road, currently closed, will open, and Thornburg Road, currently open, will close Sept. 16 as the county steams ahead on a dual-culvert replacement project.
Gales Creek Road will close near Thornburg Road starting Aug. 27 as county contractors begin work replacing one of two culverts carrying White Creek, a Gales Creek tributary.
For two days this week, part of Gales Creek's downtown was transformed into Indiana, and the Gales Creek Community Church of God converted to Catholicism.
That is, for a film being shot in the area.
Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire. That spark became the Tillamook Burn.
A 2-alarm brush fire, which also burned a shipping container and a junk pile, drew a multiagency response to the Gales Creek Valley on Monday afternoon, including a hazmat team, law enforcement and state fire resources Monday afternoon.
"County Jail Filled to Overflow With Arrests Made" including Ernest Narver, Frank Kearns, Thomas Young, and Roy Kearns, all arrested at Balm Grove on liquor possession charges in Prohibition-era Gales Creek.
Gales Creek farmers were deeply invested in a route that would cut from Forest Grove through Gales Creek to Tillamook. Today, portions of that route have become the Wilson River Highway, and Old Wilson River Road in Gales Creek.
National Night Out, which will be held this year on Tuesday, Aug. 5, will be celebrated by the Gales Creek community with a potluck, prizes, and representatives from local law enforcement and first responders.
