Columbia County's two official canoe-trail names need a careful read

Columbia County’s canoe-trail story starts with its 62 miles of Columbia riverfront. The Blue Book also lists the Lewis and Clark Heritage Canoe Trail as a county point of interest. A Marine Board guide shifts the view from the broad river to its island channels. It describes estuary islands between the main channel and smaller channels along the Oregon shore. The guide names the Columbia River Heritage Canoe Trail through narrow interior channels of those islands. That route gives the county’s river story an intimate scale.

The two official sources do not use the same trail name. Neither captured source states that the names point to one route. Keep that gap visible instead of joining the labels. The guide’s sixth printing dates to June 2007, and its maps are for information only. It warns readers not to use them for navigation. The safe story is the river setting, the island channels, and two names that still need a source-backed link.