Last week I posted a brief video report that damage done to Albany’s two Willamette River viewing piers had been repaired. Now we know how much the vandalism cost.
On a bike ride along the Albany riverfront Friday I went out on one of the two viewing piers. Here’s what I found.
The growing log jam under the railroad bridge across the Willamette River in Albany is slightly mysterious in at least a couple of ways.
A state senator from Port Orford has an answer to the problem of vagrants leaving trash behind when they leave their camping spots along Oregon rivers: Make the state clean it up.
Being under water for a few days toward the end of December apparently did not damage the short “boardwalk” at the bottom of Albany’s Monteith Riverpark.
Back on the Albany riverfront, the news is about the same: High water in the parks, but no problems.
A visit to the mouth of Periwinkle Creek
If you could follow Periwinkle Creek from south Albany all the way to its mouth, you would end up in Bowman Park on the Willamette River. But you can’t.
Tags: bikepath, Bowman Park, Periwinkle Creek, Willamette River