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Canemah Bluff FIELD GUIDE Canemah Bluff FIELD GUIDE Story by Ashley Conley gathering location for Native Americans. The area was also the focus of early The drive into Canemah Bluff Nature European American settlement in the Park offers a clue that this park is Willamette Valley during the mid-1800s, unlike most others. Situated on top of with the Oregon Trail ending in Oregon an ancient landslide, Canemah is one City. of the oldest-mapped neighborhoods west of the Mississippi River. The A trip to the natural area also brings you narrow neighborhood roads eventually up-close with a famous Oregon resident: level out and showcase eye-popping Sam Barlow, who helped to scout a new and unexpected vistas. From Oregon overland route of the Oregon Trail to white oak and madrone woodlands to take pioneers around the south side of vibrant upland prairies brimming with Mount Hood. The Barlow Road allowed spring wildflowers and birds, you can settlers to avoid the treacherous journey experience a diversity of habitats in a down the Columbia River and encounters relatively short walk. with Celilo Falls, which was a costly and sometimes fatal journey. Barlow retired Canemah Bluff is located less than half in the town of Canemah, and his family is a mile upriver from the largest waterfall buried in the historic pioneer cemetery. by volume in the Pacific Northwest, Willamette Falls. Thanks to the nearby Shaped by the forces of geology and falls and a natural harbor with deep, rich in cultural history, the landscape of placid water, Canemah was a major canoe Canemah Bluff invites all who want to landing and continues to be a significant experience its natural beauty firsthand. Be on the lookout! common camas and red-breasted sapsucker Oregon sunshine Brodiaea flower white fawn lilly Parking Canemah Bluff Public restroom 3rd Ave Miller St Nature Park Trail Canemah 4th Ave 815 Fourth Ave., Oregon City e r Children’s Park i v R Driving e t t lvd At the end of Fourth Avenue, park in e B m lin 5th Pl l a h 5th Ave the small lot at Canemah Children’s i l ug W lo Park, which serves as a gateway to c gate M S Canemah Bluff. Please be respectful e of neighbors and do not block driv te a South End Rd driveways. iv Canemah Bluff r p Nature Park Canemah Barker Ave Know when you go Historic Pioneer Open sunrise to sunset. No bikes Cemetery Barker Rd or dogs, please. Be aware of (private) poison oak. Deerbrook DrPine wood Ct Amenities Basketball hoops, a playground and Portland picnic shelter are located at the t C a children’s park, which is managed by d 205 n Oregon City; a bathroom is open a m 5 Oregon seasonally. Interpretive signs A City 500 Feet Area welcome you to Metro’s nature park. Josephine St enlarged oregonmetro.gov/canemah Season-by-season highlights of the creatures that take advantage of Canemah Bluff’s mast Spring: Spring brings an crop of acorns. Hidden from view abundance of color to the upland much of the year, the fruiting prairies. Many native wildflowers bodies of mushrooms suddenly bloom from March to May, appear above ground. Look for the including common camas, Brodiaea other-worldly elfin saddles hidden lilies and white rock larkspur. amongst the leaf litter. Warbling vireo and black-headed grosbeaks vocalize along the trail Winter: Take a walk back in time to the cemetery. and search for remnants of Oregon’s ancient past. The bluffs Summer: Summer heat scorches are formed from Columbia River the open prairie, turning the basalt, most of which flowed from luscious colors of spring into a Eastern Oregon 15 to 17 million parched array of dusty yellows and years ago. More recent Boring lava browns. Madrone flowers that have flows also reached this land, persisted into early summer buzz Stay in touch with news, pouring out of shield volcanoes to with bees and hummingbirds. If stories and things to do. the east. Several large chunks of you slow your pace and quiet your oregonmetro.gov/news this gas-pocked lava can be seen footsteps, you might see the elusive along the trails, most likely broken mountain beaver weaving in and Follow oregonmetro off in landslides triggered by the out of the basalt rocks that line the Missoula Floods that swept into the path. Willamette Valley 15,000 to 20,000 Fall: Western gray squirrels and years ago. black-tailed deer are just a couple 17073 Printed on recycled-content paper. paper. on recycled-content Printed 17073.
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