The Tillamook Forest Center is expected to open next year in March. We are anxious to reopen and host visitors with smiles and an overdue hello, the center said.
Highway 6 is currently closed near Lees Camp in Tillamook County as emergency crews respond to a vehicle crash, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Those using Highway 6 to travel should note that an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) striping project from Banks to Tillamook begins Tuesday, and is expected to last three days.
Firefighters from Forest Grove Fire & Rescue, Banks Fire District, and the Oregon Department of Forestry responded to a vehicle fire near mile post 33 on Highway 6 Tuesday afternoon, keeping the flames from the vehicle from spreading into the nearby forest. No one was injured.
where new property owner Dustin Knox, a former Portland restaurateur who now makes his home in Gales Creek, has been spearheading the build out of the location in preparation of opening the Chicken and Guns Smokehouse on the Wilson River Highway.
With the ink barely dry on Governor Kate Browns signature on a bill requiring the Oregon Department of Transportation to study Highway 6 and make repair recommendations to the
The Tillamook and Washington County lines at the Coast Range summit on Highway 6 on January 27, 2022. Photo: Chas Hundley
Is change on the way for Oregon's
An emergency vehicle heads east on Gales Creek Road toward a police scene at Dorman Pond Sunday, January 30, 2022. Photo: Chas Hundley
Several Gales Creek residents noticed police activity
A K-9 unit aided in locating Bradley Harris. Photo from Tillamook County Sheriff's Office video
A Tillamook resident died in a crash Sunday morning near milepost 8 on
The junction of Highways 6 and 8 in Gales Creek on February 24, 2021. Photo: Chas Hundley
Two people are the latest killed in a crash on the Wilson River
A Life Flight helicopter lands on Highway 6 near Timmerman Road to transport the driver of a tractor involved in a rollover crash on June 8. Photo: Forest Grove Fire
