Apiary Road

One thing that is immediately apparent about Apiary Road is that it’s rural. If you’re coming in from the north end around Rainier or Clatskanie, you have to climb up out of the river valley to get there, and then you go up a set of wonderful uphill esses that take you up onto the plateau.

If there’s no traffic, you can have a significantly fun trip up through those curves and still not be in serious hoodlum territory. Those are some good sweepers.

Unfortunately, that also means that the bicyclists like them too. I had to wait at intersections several times for the bicycle race that was running that weekend that went up through Fern Hill Road and then down Apiary back to US 30.

The south end of this road is more timer country than rural. The trees are thicker and taller, and evergreen instead of deciduous, and the farms don’t have lovely manicured lawns out in front of the house once you’re a few miles past the wide spot in the road that is the hamlet of Apiary itself.

One thing to keep in mind. Get gas in Clatskanie or Rainier before you head Apiary Road. There’s no services along the roadside and services are very scant even further south on the roads this one connects to.

  • Road Name: Apiary Road
  • Counties: Columbia(OR)
  • Length: 23
  • Towns: Apiary, Hudson, Rainier, West Rainier

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Twisties, Western Oregon | October 4th, 2011
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  1. Chris Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    Just did Apieary from Rainier (and then through to the 26). Nice rural road except that a large portion is being repaved. The South bound lane has recently been completed but the North bound lane is still being repaved in some sections. The construction signs said that work was on-going through until Sept. 30th.

  2. GSX650f by Chris : GSX650f Motorcycle Adventure #1 Says:
    January 6th, 2010 at 10:05 PM

    [...] made up a reason to see my Mom , who lives in Beaverton, Oregon, last week just so I could go ride Apiary road. Well, that’s not totally [...]

  3. Speed3 Says:
    December 23rd, 2011 at 11:50 PM

    I turned onto this road from highway 47 on my way northbound from Vernonia in November 2011. The logging traffic was intense. Very few breaks in double yellow for passing. Several 5 truck convoys traveling ten over the limit made it tough to pass. If you are lucky enough not to have traffic it’s easy to take the sweepers over 60 coming downhill northbound towards hwy 30 (on a Harley softail custom) until the 4 mile stretch south of highway 30 where local traffic intersects from many side streets. Most of the road is posted at 45. No cops sighted from Vernonia to 30. Lots of them once you’re on 30.

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