Sauvie Island – Collin’s Beach
Seasons
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Checklists
Location
Open year round, Parking Permit required. There are multiple access points with trails leading through the woodlands bordering the beach. Parking areas start just after Reeder road turns to gravel. There are portable restroom facilities here as well.
DirectionsHabitat and Birds
Cottonwood gallery and willow thickets, open beach with a river view that can have all manner of river birds, loons, grebes, gulls and ducks in season. Great Horned Owls have nested in the Cottonwoods; Bald Eagles use them as perches, and are pretty good for woodpeckers and migrant and breeding passerines.
Nearby Birding Locations
- Sauvie Island – Gilbert Boat Ramp
- Sauvie Island - The Wash
- Bonnie Falls
- Sauvie Island – Walton Beach
- Sauvie Island – Willow Bar
- Sauvie Island – Warrior Rock Trail
- Sauvie Island – Racetrack Lake
- Scappoose Bottoms Honeyman Road
- Sauvie Island –Observation Platform
- Sauvie Island – Rentenaar Point
- Santosh Quarry Lake
- Sauvie Island (General Info)
- Sauvie Island – Oak Island Nature Trail (OBT)
- Sauvie Island – Rentenaar Rd
- Scappoose Waste Treatment Pond and Kessi Pond
- Sauvie Island - Steelman Rd
- Crown Zellerbach Trail – West End (OBT)
- Crown Zellerbach Trail – East End (OBT)
Discussion