Mount Hood National Recreation Area is a protected area within

Mount Hood National Forest The Mount Hood National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, located east of the city of Portland and the northern Willamette River valley. The Forest extends south from the Columbia River Gorge across more than of fore ...

Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...

, USA. Established on March 30, 2009 by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (§7002), the national recreation area is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. It comprises three non-contiguous units, none of which include Mount Hood itself, which is mostly within the Mount Hood Wilderness in the national forest. The Mount Hood Unit lies to the southeast of Mount Hood and includes portions of the Badger Creek Wilderness (Bonney Butte area) and Mount Hood Wilderness (Barlow Butte and Twin Lakes areas). The Fifteenmile Unit lies directly to the east of the mountain south of Oregon Route 35, and the Shellrock Unit is to the northeast of the mountain, paralleling Route 35. When the NRA was created, approximately 130 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management were transferred to the Forest Service.

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Public Law 111-11The New Mount Hood National Recreation Area
{{Protected areas of Oregon National Recreation Areas of the United States Protected areas of Wasco County, Oregon Mount Hood National Forest 2009 establishments in Oregon