Coyote Wall in the Columbia River Gorge see a drastic change in scenery after wildfire burns through area

BINGEN — In spring, you can count on the Columbia River Gorge’s Coyote Wall trail network to dazzle the eyes with crowded carpets of yellow and purple wildflowers. In the heat of summer, Coyote Wall’s jagged, tilting grassland dries out into a furrowed plateau of glowing gold.

But when I went back in mid-September, what I found was a darkened, denuded landscape of exposed rock and mud. Tags Columbia River Gorge Environment Hiking Lifestyles Wildfires