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🚗🚙Traffic jams and no parking spots can ruin a trip to the beach.🏖️ 🅿️A new limited entry parking pilot program is starting at Sauvie Island Wildlife Area’s beaches to manage ongoing parking and traffic problems. From July 4-Labor Day, vehicles parking at the beaches’ parking areas on weekends and holidays will need both a free Sauvie Island Beaches Pass for that date and a Wildlife Area Parking Permit ($10 daily). Get them before heading to Sauvie Island at MyODFW.com or a license sale agen

Reach the Beach is a 106-mile bike ride from Sauvie Island to the Oregon coast, running through the scenic Clatsop State Forest. On this week’s episode of the Peak Northwest podcast, we talk to Vickie Connor, a visual journalist with The Oregonian/OregonLive, about her experience participating in the ride. Here are some highlights from this week’s show: • How Vickie got involved with Reach the Beach. • Why the ride is definitely hard, but not necessarily in the way that Vickie thought. • The bes