60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Portland by Paul Gerald.Afoot & Afield: Portland/Vancouver by Douglas Lorain.Day Hiking: Columbia River Gorge by Craig Romano.Hiking Oregon's Geology by Ellen Morris Bishop.Easy Portland Outdoors by Teresa Bergen.Urban Trails: Portland by Eli Boschetto.100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington by William L.Search Trail Q&A for Warrior Point Hike.Search Trip Reports for Warrior Point Hike.In duck hunting season, you will share the area with hunters they will usually be here early in the morning and in the evening.A day pass for $10, or annual pass for $30 can be picked up at several locations on the island as listed on the Warrior Point Trailhead page. Sauvie Island Wildlife Area Features and Ownership (ODFW).A couple of brushy overgrown vehicle tracks can be found leading off here, but you will need to return along the road bed the way you came. On a clear day, look north to the truncated summit of Mount Saint Helens. Get a view of pilings and the dock at St. Go right here for just over a quarter of a mile to reach Warrior Point, the northernmost tip of Sauvie Island. You can stroll up the lovely beach as far as a concrete platform, and then walk into the cottonwoods on a road bed to reach a junction. Behind the lighthouse, partly concealed by blackberries are the remains of a house and the small prefab lighthouse keeper's dwelling, now fenced off and gated.
The grassy bench here is a great picnic spot and perch for gazing at the river traffic and bird and sea lion watching.
The road continues, sometimes very muddily, through thickets of red osier dogwood, Armenian blackberry, snowberry, cottonwood, Oregon ash, and willow.Įventually the road bed turns to reach the little bay and basalt point at Warrior Rock, where Oregon's smallest lighthouse, the Warrior Rock Light is still functioning. On the river, there may be fishermen and sea lions sunning themselves on the buoys. This area is former farmland, and you may also stumble across signs of previous human habitation such as concrete building foundations, chimneys and rusting metal machinery parts. If you are prepared to bushwack a bit, there are a variety of ponds, sloughs and wetlands to the west of the access road. Continue north on this road.įrom the road, you will be able to access several viewpoints of the river, but there is no more continuous beach walking available: the shore is mainly a mudflat that blooms with sneezeweed, Douglas’ aster, field mint and coreopsis in the fall. Look for a path through the brush to take you to the dirt access road through a cottonwood forest that parallels the beach. After about a half mile, you will run out of beach.
Cottonwoods, willows, ash, and black locust rim the shore. Head north (downstream), and if the weather is clear, you should get a glimpse of the lighthouse, near the end of the island, three miles away. Make sure you pick up your refuge day pass before you park at the trailhead.įrom the trailhead at the end of Reeder Road, you can pass through the entry gate, but it is more pleasant to start on the beach. In late summer and early fall, river levels are way down and you may be able to walk a long stretch on the beach and hard mudflats. Sea lions frequent the Columbia River and feast on the runs of chinook, steelhead, and smelt. In winter, both on the hike and the drive in there's an excellent chance of seeing bald eagles, sandhill cranes, Canada and cackling geese, snow geese, and tundra swans. You will be traveling through a state wildlife refuge and visiting the small Warrior Rock Light. Take a quiet, flat stroll out to the northern tip of Sauvie Island.
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