Collins Beach

Take Hwy. 30 from Portland. Travel aprox. 10 miles thru Linnton to the Sauvies Island Bridge and take a right onto bridge. Follow road that takes you back under the bridge to the left. Continue aprox. another 11 miles on Gillighan road to parking and sign board #6. Landmarks : You will pass The Pumpkin Patch farm on your left, follow road till you come to a right turn permitted without stopping sign, that road is called Gillighan road. Turn there to the right, follow road past Reeder beach and store, a couple trailer parks, the road will eventually turn to gravel. At that point it becomes a clothing optional beach, (Collins Beach), there are six sign boards on the right every few hundred feet, go to signboard # 6, there is a trail to the beach there. By the way, you will need to pick up a parking permit at either of the two little stores on the island, 11.00 for a year pass, or 3.50 for a day pass. Follow the trail thru a cottonwood patch of trees 200 ft or so, when it opens up there to your left another 150 ft. to the next patch of trees on the trail. will open back up onto the beach, follow trail to the upper part of the beach a couple hundred feet, there you will find the labyrinth. There are always people that will tell you where it is