I'm not familiar with the story behind this...The Little North Fork has been closed to the public since the Labor Day conflagration in 2020. The entire road has essentially been turned into a private lane for residents only and is heavily patrolled.
On Labor Day of 2020 an extremely strong east wind, over 70 mph in some of the mountain passes, drove a series of blowtorch conflagrations through parts of Oregon's Willamette and Mt Hood national forests. Five of the fires exceeded 100,000 acres each. The Lionshead fire started about 12 miles west of the town of Warm Springs, which is on the Deschutes. In a matter of a few hours it raced over the Cascades and burned through the town of Detroit and on to the west. It merged with the Beachie Creek fire, just over the ridge to the north of Detroit, which exploded the same day and incinerated much of the canyon of the Little North Fork, eventually burning into the town of Mehama, and further to the west up on the ridges to the north. That fire was stopped as it burned into Silver Falls park on the west. The Beachie/Lionshead megafire, nearly 400,000 acres, burned over 1500 structures, including 700+ homes. Three people died in the Little North Fork canyon, and at least one other was horribly injured. Most roads in the burn scar were closed to the public, many have not yet reopened for various reasons.
Here is a video of the fire burning past a communications tower atop Halls Ridge, above Detroit Reservoir.
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