trails and greenways

Discover Forest Park though your five senses.  Observe plants from the inside out; smell native flower blooms; hug the tallest city tree in the country; hear birds abounding; and taste the park's summer bounty! Ages 10-14.  Meet at Lower Macleay Park.  Limited to 15 participants.  Click here to reserve a place for your young forest explorers today!  Advance reservations are required by 12 noon on the day before each hike.

Follow Balch Creek into the heart of Forest Park's history, count tree rings hundreds of years into the past, learn the story of Daniel Balch, and write your own history of the mysterious Stone House.  Ages 10-14.  Meet at Lower Macleay Park.  Limited to 15 participants.  Click here to reserve a place for your young forest explorers today!  Advance reservations are required by 12 noon on the day before each hike.

Dive into the Impassable Wilderness on this hike based on the first volume of the popular Wildwood Chronicles, by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, creating our own maps and stories of the land and creatures of Forest Park.  Ages 10-14.  Meet at NW 53rd & Dogwood Trail.  Limited to 15 participants.  Click here to reserve a place for your young forest explorers today!  Advance reservations are required by 12 noon on the day before each hike.

Find creative inspiration within Forest Park’s native forest during an afternoon of story-writing, illustrating and sharing.  Discover your muse from the park’s history and ecology, all beneath the forest’s lush summer canopy.  Ages 10-14.  Meet at NW 53rd & Dogwood Trail.  Kids’ Discovery Hikes are limited to 15 participants and will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.  Click here to reserve a place for your young forest explorers today!  Advance reservations are required by 12 noon on the day before each hike.

Join Friends of Baltimore Woods, SOLVE, npGreenway, Portland Parks & Recreation, the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, and Rewild Portland to celebrate the transformation of the Baltimore Woods Connectivity Corridor! Help us kick off the MAJOR depaving and restoration effort of Baltimore Woods and find out about the future of this amazing space. We’ll begin to free the soil to make way for a beautiful Oregon white oak prairie. Then we’re throwing a party!

The day will include depaving, opportunities to learn about this unique landscape and the North Portland Greenway, music, food, festivities, art and fun activities for all ages. Depaving from 10 am until noon. The party goes until 3 pm Volunteers of all ages are welcome. Depave will provide volunteers with tools and safety gear. Volunteers wishing to depave MUST wear closed-toed shoe - No exceptions!!! Don’t want to depave? No problem! There will be lots to enjoy for everyone. Here are directions to the site. PARKING can be found outside the gate in the surrounding neighborhood. There is limited parking adjacent the site - reserved as accessible parking.

Check out the super rad art installation that's part of this depave!