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Dabney State Recreation Area Trails

The classic summer place, Dabney has been a popular cooling-off swimming and picnic spot for over 50 years. It's easy to see why when you visit. The lower, older part of the park at the west end features an asphalt trail leading down to a classic swimming hole. Large picnic tables and briquette grills and a reservable shelter with electricity fill up quickly on hot days. The newer parts of the park feature a covered, reservable picnic shelter and trails winding through tall bamboo, horsetail, cottonwoods and alders.

Columbia Slough Water Trail

The Columbia Slough is a 19-mile long remnant of lakes, wetlands and slow-moving channels in the southern floodplain of the Columbia River. It stretches from its origin at the 102-acre Fairview Lake and the headwaters of Fairview Creek near Grant Butte in Gresham westward to the 2,000-acre Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area and to its confluence with the Willamette River.

Efforts are underway to close gaps in the Columbia Slough segment of the 40-Mile Loop, develop neighborhood connections to local and regional trails and increase access for paddlers on the slough.

Columbia Slough Trail

Much of this trail is not constructed yet, but when complete this important piece of the 40 Mile Loop trail system will provide an over 21 mile east-west link along the Columbia Slough -- connecting Blue Lake Regional Park in Gresham to Kelly Point Park in North Portland. The built segments of the trail pass by Delta Park between North Portland Road and Interstate 5 on the west end and also along the slough adjacent Airport Way on the east end.

 

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