Photos from the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge Walk

Our walk starts to the right of the Main Building

There is a really cool living wall by the picnic shelter

One of many marshy areas for field study

There are a few bridges to walk across

One of the lookout areas, this one hangs out over the water

The view from the edge (or as close as I was getting)

Beautiful old oak tree

The view from the main lookout (there were several people there looking at many different birds the day we were there).

Julie says this is a Nutria (giant rat like thing) but from a distance they look very cute...

You can't see her very well but there is a Mommy duck sitting in her nest

Towards the end of our walk we see a gorgeous crane

Photos from Denney Road to Scholls Ferry Walk



The start of our walk is at a small parking area and this really cool sculpture (maybe a bike rack?)



Fanno Creek

One of many bridges we see/cross along the way

This trail would be great for kids as well, lots of playstructures to stop and play on.

The Scholls Ferry turn around point (not a very pretty "bridge" to walk under). You can continue on the path but the book says turn around here....

You can't tell, but this is a very cool looking bird. We saw many of them along the walk.

As usual we find some pretty trees on our walk.

Fanno Creek...

Photos from the Washington Park to Arlington Heights Walk

This is the path we started on. The old street lamps add to the beauty of the area.

I think these are Horsetail ferns. They are all over out here and look really cool.

This is the first set of stairs we encounter on our walk (there are about 39 here)

This is a statue of an Indian Chief (reportedly Chief Multnomah) looking east.

A chair out of a fallen tree, looks like a good place to rest a bit if you needed.

This house looks like it should be in Italy, we both love the arched greenery over the door.

These Steps lead up to a Grotto (we are unable to go up there though). They were built in 1913 as a family picnic spot for the Jorgensons.

A cobblestone path from years past. It was fun to walk on but was really slippery due to the rain.

One of the many beautiful trees we see along the way.

This area is called the "Peanut Bowl" due to its shape and has many beautiful blooming flowers.

44 step staircase through Portuguese Laurel (yes, we walked up these as well)

Both of us loved this house and the surrounding grounds.

This house has roofing materials used for its siding. The house is owned by 2 architects

We take another set of stairs, this time there are 80 of them and the staircase runs in the middle of someones property.

Surprise!!! We find a chicken coop along the way (3 chickens in this one).

We finally enter the International Rose Test Garden (we walk down another 62 steps down to get there)

One of the many beautiful blooming roses (the yellow ones smell the best today).

The Beech Memorial Fountain in the Rose Garden

As we walk out of the Rose Garden and along the path, we come to the Rose Garden Children's Park.

This tree has a strange color of bark on it and it was very smooth.

The Elephant House which still has some of the bars and the Mural on the back wall.

This is a View of the Vista Bridge from Washington Park (just past the Elephant House)

One of 2 Reservoirs at Washington Park. You are no longer able to walk beside it due to the fence they put up during WWII

Cupids Fountain which was an early day "filling station" for horses

These steps (48 of them) run alongside the reservoir

One of the many Washington Park signs

We are now at the Formal entrance to Washington Park (notice the brick work and more stairs)

Yup, we climbed these steps too.

On the Granite Memorial Column (Commemorates the achievements of Lewis and Clark)

Statue of Sacajawea and her baby

At some point these stairs had more vegetation around them (we went down these 56 steps)

More steps to go down, 46 here.

One quick (not very good photo) of us as we get ready to decend the last section of stairs.

Our last set of stairs is 119 in total and is a good jaunt to the bottom. Whew!!! Was a great walk but we are both tired!