The Wallooskee River is a tributary of the Youngs River, about 10 miles (16 km) long, in northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains a small area of the foothills of the Coast Range near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Youngs River is a tributary of the Columbia River.
It rises southwest of Astoria in a northern Clatsop County at 46°06′29″N 123°40′29″W / 46.1081652°N 123.6748571°W / 46.1081652; -123.6748571 (Wallooskee River source). It flows generally west in a winding course. About a mile before its mouth, it receives the Little Wallooskee River from the right at 46°08′32″N 123°46′50″W / 46.1423303°N 123.780417°W / 46.1423303; -123.780417 (Little Wallooskee River mouth) which flows about 2 miles (3.2 km) from its source at 46°08′22″N 123°44′09″W / 46.1395532°N 123.735971°W / 46.1395532; -123.735971 (Little Wallooskee River source). The Wallooskee enters Youngs River from the east at the south end of Youngs Bay, approximately 2 mi (3 km) south of Astoria.
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“Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)