Strawberry Mountain Loop Camp Hike Guide | Prairie City, Oregon

Head way out past John Day, Oregon and dive into the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness for a great camping hike. Alpine lakes, butterflies, rocky mountain goats, mountain peaks, a waterfall, and numerous springs await you.
Trailhead - goo.gl/maps/Dj4BS5D2EdwyzZha9
Forest Service Status - www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/malhe...
Forest Service Goat Safety - • Hiking Safely With Goats
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3 days/2 nights
19 miles

[@ernie-tz2jp]

I use to hike up to the top of strawberry mountain 4 times a year. I also fought 4 wildfires up there. There used to be to be a lookout tower at the top… a long time ago.

[@elaine8477]

Did parts of that trail a few decades ago. This brings back wonderful memories!

[@zam6877]

Love this format, does a good job getting a sense whither the hike is right for me
Thanks 😃

[@PacificNorthwestTrailGuide]

Thanks, glad to hear it. That is exactly my goal.

[@rickw289]

Informative detail, good job!

[@GettingToHeaven]

I GREATLY enjoyed watching your video moments ago. It brings back such fond memories. I grew up in that part of the world in the late 1950's to 1966's. My father, Ray Rasmussen, loved to fish the Strawberry Lakes and Slide Lake. My brother, Floyd, and I made many a trip into those lakes ... especially Slide Lake. We would walk in before daybreak by flashlight; fish the day; and hike back down to Strawberry Campground ... usually getting there after dark. We ALWAYS had pink meat trout to take home with us. You could catch 17 - 18 inch trout if all went well back in those days.
One of the most thrilling things that happened in hiking into Slide Lake was seeing the HUGE mule deer bucks at daybreak. There were Boone and Crocket racks on those big boys I declare! (Now you're lucky if you can see a scrawny doe). Didn't have mountain goats up there back then so that's wonderful they can now be seen.
So many precious childhood memories were made in that part of Oregon. I thank God a million times over for having the chance to grow up there ... especially after living out in Michigan here for nearly 40 years. NOTHING here compares with beautiful Grant County, Oregon!
Thanks again for taking the time to film what you filmed. You did an awesome job! You made a homesick lad very happy this evening. (Norm Rasmussen).

[@PacificNorthwestTrailGuide]

Wow! Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad to have helped spark some memories. I grew up in Western Oregon, but got to visit out east quite a bit. I have many fond childhood memories from there myself.

[@richardwarner3705]

1963 till 1975, Mt. Vernon, I new a Randy Rasmussen in highschool.🇺🇦🐻

[@brianfairweather7298]

I'm doing this starting tomorrow! Woo-hoo! Good video

[@adventureswithsammy7154]

Reliving past trips and greatly enjoyed this video. In the past I would camp overnight at the lower bridge, and daylike that loop while pushing my springers. Often watching wildlife and daydreaming what changed in 100, 200 500 years. Yea the down hill can tax the quads if fitness is a factor. Fall season is by far best, as early summer late spring bring more wearther than want. And snowshoe winter is slow, but still enjoyable if enjoy that style. haha sub zero and claims of heat waves at 10F lol.

[@user-xz8bi1yj6b]

Thanks, this is an interesting and informative series!. However, there were no close shots of Little Strawberry Lake and one cannot tell how far the campsites are from the lake???

[@PacificNorthwestTrailGuide]

Yeah, I see what you mean, sorry about that! It actually varies a little bit. The first group of campsites shown are set back more from the lake, probably 2 or 3 hundred feet. Then after you cross the little creek flowing out from the lake, those few sites after that are closer, more like 100 feet back from the lake, you can see the lake from the campsites over the buses there, i just didn't catch it well in the video. Also, the one site I show at the end is kind of a secluded one that is on a little hill farther from the lake.

[@nuthut1396]

Those goats look thirsty

[@PacificNorthwestTrailGuide]

They may have located some electrolytes near camp 😆

[@onelonelysnickers]

Great video! I see a trip out east in my near future. Do you have a printable map of this route by any chance?

[@PacificNorthwestTrailGuide]

Thanks! Not sure how printable it is, but this is the route: lh5.googleusercontent.com/LuCwhyst9jfqvJnroXcwdMrqVUCjMFAJYPv79NzFlr9VNoDvjieJT9mhfsSDgxBDl8uqA-CZLrBO7cmJAWMxPy6Yagypaca1O9IoXk5fVuz5beIC4KrkRYq4Ls3NsKMCog=w1280
Probably best to plot the route in your GPS app or use caltopo.com/

[@lylecampbell9036]

Strawberry Mountians are not high desert.