Walkable North Bend, Saturday, January 28, 2023, 10:00, Registration Required. This hike will be a ‘Weather Permitting’ hike, and may be cancelled if the weather is bad. Check the Coostrails.com website on the day of the hike for information if the weather is sketchy. Description: Explore some of the many paths and trails commonly used by the folks in North Bend both past and present. You can join local author and historian Dick Wagner on an easy to moderate 2 mile loop from Ferry Road Park, along Bayview Ave and back up into town, before walking through Simpson Park, past the North Bend Visitor Center, under the McCullough Bridge, and then returning through the woods to Ferry Park. Dick literally ‘wrote the book’ (or books) on North Bend History. This hike should last about 2 hours. We will meet at 10:00 in the Ferry Road Park parking lot. Directions: Ferry Road is just South of the McCullough Bridge. If you are heading South it will be your first left. If you are heading North, it will be on the right, just past the North Bend Visitor Information Center. Also, sign up for Coos County Odyssey 2023. It starts this week, and you can support a good cause while improving your health through exercise. This event raises money for the Nurses’ Purse Fund, which is used by Public Health Nurses to help people in need. The Friends of the Umpqua Hiking Club will be hiking in our area in February and early March. Watch for details on how to join in on these hikes: Feb 4–South Slough; Feb 18–Heceta Head; March 4–Cape Mountain.
