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DIRECTIONS Drive west on State Highway 6 toward Tillamook. Just before you reach milepost 35, turn right on the well-signed gravel road to Gales Creek Campground. After about 1 mile, pull into the day-use parking lot on the left just before the road crosses a bridge over Gales Creek. This campground is closed from November to May when a gate blocks the access road from Highway 6. If you are hiking in the off-season, start at the busier Summit Trailhead on the east side of Rogers Pass another 2 miles up Highway 6 from the Gales Creek turnoff.

For a counterclockwise loop, take the Gales Creek Trail to the right (northwest) from the parking area and begin a slow steady climb. After traversing the woodsy hillside above Gales Creek for 0.8 mile, a narrow log bridge takes you over an unnamed side creek. You immediately reach a junction with the Storey Burn Trail.

Turn left (uphill) and begin a steady climb that keeps pace with the small cascading creek on your left. You travel through second-growth forests composed of the usual Coast Range mix of Douglas fir, western hemlock, western red cedar, bigleaf maple, and red alder. Although the forest canopy is quite dense in places, it allows ample sunshine to reach the forest floor in order to support a thick growth of sword fern and Oregon grape. About 1 mile after starting on the Storey Burn Trail, you splash across a small creek right beside a pretty, stair-step waterfall—a great place for a leisurely rest stop. Above this point the trail slowly winds uphill through a partially logged area to a junction with the gravel Storey Burn Road.