ROOSTER ROCK, OR

From: richard@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)

  ROOSTER ROCK STATE PARK on the Columbia River is located 20 miles east
  of Portland on Interstate 84.  The CO area is marked with signs.  Just
  drive in the main gate and turn right (east).  Follow to the end of the
  parking lot.  At the end of the east parking lot is a restroom.  About
  40 feet from the restroom is a stairway.  Draw an imaginary line along
  the stairway down to the river and up the bank and to the south.  The
  state sanctioned CO section is on the east end of that line.  There
  is a sign on the stairway noting that.  You have the trees for walking
  through the trails (yes there are insects), plus several miles of beach
  (you can walk completely around the island during low water...  which
  we have this year.....which is about a 3-4 mile walk).  It is all sand,
  also.

  Rooster Rock has lots of parking ($3/day in 1993) patroled by park staff
  and state police, public restrooms with running water which are cleaned
  at least daily.  Rooster Rock has it's own exit off I-84, a boat launch,
  picnic facilities.  In short it is a beautiful park in a beautiful place
  used by anyone and everyone that wants to visit, just like any state park
  in any state of the country.  Except for one section, the beach area on
  the east end of the park is CO, has been for years, maybe forever.  It
  is allowed to be CO because it is not illegal to be nude in public in
  the state of Oregon.  We like it that way.

  Weather reports for the area can be found at
|   http://www.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/Webweather/ww?city=pdx
|   http://www.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/Webweather/ww?city=dls

  	[Original from Jim Boland <jimb@loowit.wr.tek.com>
  	and David Haight <davidh8@pogo.wv.tek.com>]