Michael Calhoun on the Banks-Vernonia Oregon State Trail
Michael Calhoun, a lifelong resident of Vernonia, Oregon and Board Chair of the Columbia Soil & Water Conservation District, joins this shared episode of Big Blend Radio's "Parks & Travel" Podcast — timed to National Park Week 2026 — to share the story of the Banks-Vernonia Trail, a 20-mile former logging railroad that became Oregon's first rails-to-trail conversion and later earned National Recreation Trail certification from the National Park Service.
Michael talks about growing up in a town shaped by the timber industry, the community debate that surrounded turning an old rail line into a…
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