Stub Stewart State Park

Introduction of Stub Stewart State Park

Your backyard playground is Stub Stewart State Park. The park provides camping, picnics, and hiking and is only 31 miles west of Portland. You should visit this park if you enjoy hiking routes. Discover new paths that are almost 15 kilometres long. Spend hours riding your horse or bicycle around the park’s remote areas. The 1,650 acres of beautiful rolling hills, woodland, and deep valleys make it simple to locate a peaceful place to unwind after a day of playing. Do you just have time for a day trip? A family get-together would be ideal in the Hilltop Day-use Area with its views of the Coast Range. There are two trailheads: one at the northern end and the other at the southern end. The State Park has 78 full hookup sites (50 amp, all sites 50 feet long), 12 walk-in tent sites that can be reserved (maximum tent size allowed is 10’x14′), 23 hike-in primitive campsites (water available); first come, first served (contact park office for special event reservations), and 12 one-room (cabins 1-3, 7-15), 3 two-room (cabins 4, 5, 6) and cabins cabins (with capacity for up to six people) cabins (only one car per cabin). The campsite offers accommodations for equestrian camping as well. There are 2 double-size full hookup sites and 14 full hookup sites with 4-stall corrals each.

Camping at Stub Stewart State Park

The state park contains 23 hike-in primitive campsites (water provided), 12 one-room (cabins 1-3, 7-15), and 3 two-room (cabins 4, 5, 6) cabins (only one car per cabin) that may be reserved. There are also 12 walk-in tent sites with a maximum tent size of 10’x14′ that can be reserved.

Stub Stewart State Park Activities

Hiking

This park is for you if you enjoy hiking routes. Spend hours travelling the park’s remote reaches and exploring the almost 15 miles of new paths. The 1,650 acres of beautiful rolling hills, woodland, and deep valleys make it simple to locate a peaceful place to unwind after a day of playing. Do you just have time for a day trip? A family get-together would be ideal in the Hilltop Day-use Area with its views of the Coast Range. There are two trailheads: one at the northern end and the other at the southern end.

Picnicking

Picnics may be enjoyed at the hilltop day use area while enjoying views of the coastal range.

RVing

The State Park contains 14 full hookup sites with 4-stall corrals, 14 full hookup sites with 6-stall corrals, and 78 full hookup sites (all sites are 50 feet long and have 50 amp service).

Stub Stewart State Park History 

In the late 1990s, Washington County started making plans for a park. A master plan was finished by 2001, and land acquisition for the park was under way. When roads were put in leading from Highway 47 to the park area, construction started in 2003. The $18 million facility’s buildings and campsites were under development by 2005. The park was originally supposed to open around Memorial Day weekend in May 2007, but it didn’t until July 8.

Washington County State Park was the park’s first working name before being renamed to Hare’s Canyon State Park. The current name was adopted in 2005 in remembrance of state lawmaker and lumberjack Loren LaSells “Stub” Stewart, who had passed away in January of that year. He was also a co-owner of a timber firm, a well-known philanthropist, and had long served on the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission. In June 2012, the park debuted the first mountain biking-only routes in the region.

To connect it with the Banks-Vernonia State Trail, which he and his wife assisted in constructing, Washington County Circuit Court Judge Hollie Pihl lobbied the State of Oregon to create the new state park on the parcel of property it is now on. Due to his efforts, Pihl had “Hollie’s Point of View,” a double entendre for those who knew him because he was a very opinionated guy, named in his honour.

Transportation

Driving

Located from Banks to Vernonia on the east side of Oregon 47.

Parking

Parking is available.

Public Transport

Public Transport is available.