Users can expect to meet moderate numbers of other people. Facilities such as developed campgrounds, trailheads, and trails are present but widely distributed. Occasional use of off-highway vehicles occurs. There are ample opportunities to seek solitude and participate in activities where there are no facilities and few people. Forest settings that have obviously been altered by timber harvesting.
Access is by highway, road and trail.
Users can expect to meet a high level of other people in concentrated locations along rivers, peaks, and developed sites. Facilities such as developed campgrounds, trailheads, and day use areas are numerous. Frequent and concentrated use of off-highway vehicles occurs. There are limited opportunities to seek solitude and participate in activities where there are no facilities or other people. Managing the landscape to accomplish the general description of recreational settings above, Clatsop State Forest will provide rustic, natural, but high quality facilities in locations where resource compatibility permit and the need for development has been identified.