Willamette Mission State Park
I strongly encourage a visit to Willamette Mission State Park while the weather is still good. It's just a few miles north of town. Here's a picture from my visit to the park yesterday.
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Were you on a boat? How swift is the water?
ReplyDeleteNo, we were on a dock. The body of water in the picture is a pond of sorts, that drains into the Willamette River. It's clam and peaceful.
ReplyDeleteThat's the slough, isn't it? If so, it represents an older course of the Willamette, changed during one of the floods. Minto-Brown's slough, for example, I believe changed in the 1881 flood. I think Willamette Mission's slough may have resulted from the 1861 flood that wiped out Champoeg. These are reminders of the dynamic vitality - both of fertility and of destruction - of the river.
ReplyDeleteGreat info. Was the course of the river altered naturally, or was there some kind of human interference?
ReplyDeleteThe river jumped the bank and found a new course in the 1861 flood. But then human activity sealed off the slough. So both. Here's a 7pp pdf that gives more detail both on the history and current restoration activities.
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