St. John’s is a lovely neighborhood, and Cathedral Park is simply beautiful, so this week’s Segment of the Week is in that area. The Cathedral Park Trail segment has a few rollers over it’s 0.5-mile distance, which start at the end of N. Burlington Ave and then heads north on the N. Portland Willamette Greenway Trail. The trail then undulates under the St. John’s Bridge, first away from the river and then back towards it, before…
If you haven’t run on the new Tualatin River Greenway Trail, you are missing out … but not on much, since it’s less than a mile. Plans are in place to extend the trail and connect it with Brown’s Ferry Park; the owners of the land that used to be an RV park are working with the city and allow easement, it just takes time (info on that project here). If you can work this…
This week we are visiting a segment on one of my all-time favorite routes, a short curvy section that winds for 0.3 miles through Tigard’s Woodard Park. It serves as a connector between the sections of Fanno Creek Trail that run behind Fowler Middle School and the new section that runs under Highway 99, and the park has a porta-potty and a drinking fountain (that’s only on in the summer, but still). The segment runs…
