Shadybrook is a favorite of mine. If you go out past the pallet place where it hits Jackson School Road you can either go up Dorland for a good steep paved climb to Morland (unpaved), and then up to Skyline. Or you can keep going until you eventually hit Dixie Mountain Road for a nice 6-or-so mile unpaved climb. Go up one and come down the other! Both are doable on a road bike in winter (you'll want fenders), when the dirt gets wet and packed down. In summer it can be pretty loose up there. CX bikes/tires are a good bet in summer months.
The Dorland option makes a good way to ride to the Rocky Point trails on your mountain bike. From my place in downtown Hillsboro it's about a 55-mile round trip to ride up Dorland, then take Skyline out to the Rocky Point trails, then ride back down Dixie Mountain. Bring food and water!
-E
Evan MacKenzie
Urban Planner I
City of Hillsboro
150 E. Main Street, 4th floor
Hillsboro, OR 97123
503-681-6154
evanm@ci.hillsboro.or.us
http://www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Planning_Department/
Try Hillsboro Maps!
Tons of info on any (addressed) property in Hillsboro
http://hillsboromaps.ci.hillsboro.or.us/hillsboro/index.cfm
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On Behalf Of Sarah
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:18 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Dirt Road end of Dairy Creek ?
What about Shadybrook? Anyone ridden out the gravel roads out there? I'm always curious where they go.
Sarah
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From: john
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:14:14 AM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Dirt Road end of Dairy Creek ?
Been getting questions so here is the summary of answers. We ended up riding the first half of the banks-to-vernonia trail which is really beautiful and quiet... but started getting somewhat slow since a little soft and some portions, rocky. We needed to get moving so we end up going down to 47 at where the new state park is going in. 47 sucks as far as traffic goes. Had at least 4 speeding cars in 10 miles buzz us with inches to spare even though we were right on the white line and they had 3 feet of space to the yellow line to the left of them...
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from Joe:
John, Last I heard was that a portion of the road was washed out. It is pretty loose-pack gravel to a point, then it is no-more due to the rains from this past winter.
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from Ivan:
Mike went a ways up the road but did not get through to anywhere else.
We have also ridden the Pumpkin Ridge gravel road for 12 miles, climbing to Skyline
I rode the end of Skyline (heading northeast, to the right) on gravel roads for 7~8 miles and went to St Helens
I rode the paved-to-gravel at the end of Dairy Creek ( Sherman 's Mill road??), which had some concrete traffic barriers placed about 1K past the gravel pit on the right. I then rode past that and the road deteriorated into broken pavement, then gravel, then it became a single-track trail that pretty much terminated at a rock/mud-slide that washed half the hillside away
let us know if you find a route through by going to the right on Dairy Creek and across the little bridge. There might be some country-folk with mean dogs out there, so take pepper-spray .. good luck in the adventure ...
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from George:
The bridge for one of the roads out of Dairy Creek is gone as they are rebuiilding. That is the road Mike rode up part way until he was chased away by dogs and the sound of banjos.
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from Matthew:
If you're referring to the road that continues on straight right at the end of Dairy Creek, as of this past winter (and for at least a couple years prior) it is closed about half a mile from the end of the pavement. I thought I'd be able to get past the closure on my cross bike this past winter and had planned on riding through to Vernonia but the closure isn't just a roadblock. The whole side of a hill washed out and took all traces of a road with it. If you take a right turn just as the pavement ends my recollection of riding back that way is that every road ended up dead ending at private property though I can't confirm that I tried every option.
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have you tried this yet? if so i'm curious your findings. i've sort of
explored up there a bit but never been able to connect it up anywhere very
well, otherwise i'd let you know my details. i've only gotten sort of
semi-lost/confused, and could only tell you how to do same. rich
>From: john
>Reply-To: twotiretinker-obra2@yahoo.com
>To: obra@list.obra.org
>Subject: [OBRA Chat] Dirt Road end of Dairy Creek ?
>Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Dirt Road end of Dairy Creek ? and onward to Tophill on the way to
>vernonia.. is it hardpacked ? Thanks, from John
>
>
>john m schmidt
>portland oregon
john m schmidt
portland oregon
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