April 2013 Portland metropolitan area Regional trail accomplishments 2006 and beyond | On the road to 1,200 miles of trail

wo decades ago, the Metropolitan T Greenspaces Master Plan outlined a vision for 1,200 miles of regional trails and greenways – a connected network that makes it easier to explore, relax, exercise and commute. Approved by the Metro Council in 1992, the plan brought together two dozen cities, three counties, two park districts, state and federal agencies and many nonprofit organizations, such as the 40-Mile Loop Land Trust and the Audubon Society of Portland. Everyday citizens, too, helped envision the next generation of natural areas, parks and trails. As trails advocates celebrate the 20th anniversary of “To develop a sense of community, you the Greenspaces Master Plan, there is much to be have to feel connected proud of. Some 300 miles of regional trails have been – and connectivity built, spanning the region’s communities and natural is what these trails features. That work has accelerated since 2006, when are about. The value voters passed a second natural areas bond measure that really goes beyond makes it possible to fill in trail gaps. Local advocates have the very important become more vocal and strategic during the past seven transportation, health years, helping increase federal funding for trail design and recreation aspects. and construction. Most local jurisdictions are planning, It gets down to the designing, building and maintaining trails in their fundamental principles communities. And, as the Intertwine Alliance blossoms, it of what we are about is reaching out to thousands of new trail and park users. and who we are about as a region.” These efforts make a difference for millions of people who use the region’s trails every year; Springwater on the Tom Hughes Willamette alone attracts more than 1 million walkers, Metro Council President runners and cyclists. While the region still has many miles to go to meet its goal, we are at a crossroads. With continued collaboration, more success stories will unfold www.oregonmetro.gov/trails during the next decade. Region makes tracks closing trail gaps efore walkers, runners and cyclists can These projects represent many of the region’s B explore new trails, somebody has to trails accomplishments since 2006, but they secure rights to build them – a process that are not comprehensive. is often long and complicated. Metro has A complete tally would require a book – or resources to do just that, thanks to a voter- many days exploring by bike or foot. approved 2006 natural areas bond measure.

The Sellwood Gap is shrinking!

Ever grumble about the Springwater Corridor’s missing link? You’re in luck. Learn how Metro’s voter-approved Natural Areas Program is filling the one- mile gap.

Since the bond measure passed, the region has bought land or negotiated easements on more than two dozen properties in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties, most of them along the 40-Mile Loop. Someday soon, these lines on a map will be places to get outside, get some exercise and get around.

2 1 Cazadero Trail and Trailhead 4 Gresham-Fairview Trail For project Next to Barton Park, a trailhead will welcome The popular new Gresham-Fairview Trail locations visitors to a four-mile section of the Cazadero is one step closer to connecting with the See map on pages 6-7 Trail. Metro acquired 25 acres for this portal Interstate 84, Columbia Slough and Marine along the new trail, which extends the Drive trails, thanks to an acquisition made Springwater Corridor from Boring to Barton with funds from Metro’s 2006 bond – and, eventually, up the Clackamas River measure. through the Eagle Creek, Estacada, Faraday, 5 Marine Drive Trail Cazadero and Promontory Park areas. The While walkers, runners and cyclists are busy forested trail, which is owned by the exploring the Marine Drive Trail, Metro is Parks and Recreation Department, traces paving the way for an expansion of the a historic rail line used to ship timber from popular pathway in three key locations: in Cascade forests to the Portland riverfront. Northeast Portland, near Interstate 205 and 2 Columbia Slough near the Portland-Gresham border. Closing Who’s on Pathways will someday trace this entire 19- gaps will eliminate interruptions in the trip the trail? Region makes tracks closing trail gaps mile remnant of lakes, wetlands and slow- along Marine Drive and the . According to regional moving channels in the Columbia River’s Eventually, the Marine Drive Trail will stretch trail counts, women southern floodplain. Future visitors will 20 miles from the St. Johns neighborhood account for 54 percent discover diverse plants and wildlife such as in North Portland eastward through of pedestrians and 30 deer, beaver, river otter and 175 bird species. Gresham and Troutdale, offering spectacular percent of cyclists on the Metro has secured the rights to build nearly views of water, wildlife and mountain peaks region’s trails. three-quarters mile of trail between North and serving as part of the 40-Mile Loop. Denver Avenue and Martin Luther King 6 Springwater Corridor, Southeast Jr. Boulevard and another mile along the Portland Peninsula Canal, which creates a north-south Runners, walkers and cyclists needn’t link between the Slough and Marine Drive. scrutinize trail plans to name the region’s 3 Fanno Creek Trail, Tigard most notorious missing piece – the Metro accomplished its first trails success Sellwood Gap, which forces people off story of the region’s 2006 natural areas the Springwater Corridor for a mile in its bond measure by securing rights to extend namesake neighborhood in Southeast the Fanno Creek Trail in central Tigard. Two Portland. That gap will shrink dramatically, side-by-side easements will allow more thanks to an agreement reached in 2010 than half of a one-third mile gap to be filled by Metro and the Oregon Pacific Railroad between downtown Tigard and the city’s Co. The new agreement allows the City Woodard Park. Metro also worked with of Portland to build more than half a mile Tigard to acquire the Fields property, which of trail, taking commuters and outdoor will be a wayside along the trail. About half enthusiasts from Southeast Umatilla Street complete, the trail will traverse 15 miles and to Southeast 13th Avenue. An improved five cities, connecting to the Red Electric Trail on-street bike path will connect to the in Southwest Portland and weaving through “Three Bridges” area and eastward. The Beaverton, Tigard and Durham to Tualatin, Springwater stretches 20 miles from central where Fanno Creek joins the Tualatin River. Portland through Southeast Portland, Metro’s 1995 bond measure protected Milwaukie, Gresham and unincoroporated about 40 acres for this commuting and Clackamas County, all the way to Boring. recreational trail, which connects dozens of 7 Tualatin River Greenway Trail neighborhoods, parks, schools Several new Metro natural areas will and businesses. contribute to the northern extension of Tualatin’s premier regional trail and greenway, which will one day stretch 20 miles from the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge to the in West Linn.

3 Design and construction generate on-the-ground excitement

rail lovers typically fixate on one 12 Pier-Chimney Bridge, 2013 T important question: “When can I use Chimney Park is cut off from neighboring Pier it?” That’s why, in the decades-long process Park by a narrow gully and a main line railroad of creating a trail, construction is often the – but not for long. Construction is expected Trails attract most exciting step. During the past seven summer 2013 for a 120-foot bicycle and a crowd years, dozens of trails across the region have pedestrian bridge, connecting the two parks made significant on-the-ground progress – and adding to the North Portland Greenway. Trail counts estimate how or, in some cases, opened to the public with This also fills a key gap in the 40-Mile Loop many trips people take community celebrations. People are walking, and connects North Portland to Metro’s Smith each year on the region’s running and riding their bikes on many miles and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area. trails. Here’s a sampling of of trail that didn’t exist several years ago. the results. 13 Chelatchie Prairie Rail with Trail Pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians in Tom McCall 8 Beaverton Crescent Connection, 2013-2014 Waterfront Park: Funding has been secured for design and Clark County can explore the first mile of 3.5 million Right of way acquisition for this bicycle, the Chelatchie Prairie Rail with Trail, which eventually will stretch 33 miles along the Eastbank Esplanade: pedestrian and transit project, which will build 2.1 million the Beaverton Creek Trail, improve visitors’ route of the county-owned Chelatchie Prairie connection to the Fanno Creek Trail, create Railroad. South Waterfront Trail: bike boulevards and increase access to transit, 14 Columbia Slough Trail, 2012-2013 1.3 million providing an active transportation corridor A new mile-long extension will be built from Springwater on for the city. North Denver Avenue, where the paved the Willamette: 9 Blue Lake Regional Park trail on the bike trail currently ends, to North Vancouver 1.2 million 40-Mile Loop, 2013 Avenue. A trail eventually will trace this entire Columbia More than half a mile of trail will be added 19-mile remnant of lakes, wetlands and Renaissance Trail: within Blue Lake Regional Park, at the junction slow-moving channels in the Columbia River’s 700,000 of the Gresham-Fairview Trail and the Marine southern floodplain. Salmon Creek Greenway: Drive Trail. The new addition will travel 15 Cooper Mountain Nature Park trails 410,000 through a lovely part of this popular park, When Cooper Mountain Nature Park opened Fanno Creek adjacent to the levee, to connect existing in 2007, visitors gained 3.5 miles of trails to Greenway: trail sections. 220,000 explore forest, prairie and oak woodland 10 Burnt Bridge Creek Trail habitats. Perched at the southern edge of This eight-mile paved trail through Vancouver Beaverton, the 230-acre park is home to rare connects natural areas, parks, neighborhoods, plants and wildlife. schools and businesses for cyclists and 16 Fairview Gap on the 40-Mile Loop, pedestrians. 2013-2014 11 Cazadero Trail Design, preliminary engineering and One hundred years ago, trains chugged along construction on the levee will fill a key gap the north fork of Deep Creek, transporting in the 40-Mile Loop and connect the Marine timber from Cascade forests to the Portland Drive section with the Columbia River Gorge. riverfront. Someday, nature lovers will 17 Fanno Creek Greenway Trail gaps traverse a four-mile stretch of that journey The region is busy filling gaps in the Fanno between Boring and Barton by foot, bike or Creek Greenway Trail, which will someday horseback. The former rail and streetcar line traverse 15 miles and five cities, beginning is being reinvented as the Cazadero Trail, an at the shores of the Willamette River in extension of the Springwater Corridor. In Southwest Portland and weaving through 2011, a compacted-earth-with-rock trail was Beaverton, Tigard and Durham to Tualatin, built. In 2013, a trailhead is taking shape at a where Fanno Creek joins the Tualatin River. Metro natural area next to Barton Park – and In 2009, Tigard completed a quarter-mile the trail is being extended by Oregon section connecting the new Tigard Public State Parks southeast to Eagle Creek and, 4 eventually, Estacada. Regional trail accomplishments • Progress Report Library to Main Street and downtown Tigard, known as the I-205 gap – had had to use Design and construction generate including a bridge over Fanno Creek and a the narrow shoulder of Marine Drive, next signalized crossing at Hall Boulevard. In 2012- to 50-mile-per-hour traffic. Completing on-the-ground excitement 2014 a .6-mile section from Highway 217 east this gap will create a continuous, nine- to Scholls Ferry Road filled the last remaining mile section of the trail from Northeast gap in Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District’s 33rd Drive all the way to Northeast 185th territory. Tigard will build another section of Avenue, helping enhance the 40-Mile Loop trail near Main Street in its downtown in 2013. trail network. 24 18 Graham Oaks Nature Park trails McLoughlin Promenade Cooper Mountain Nature Three miles of trails traverse Metro’s new Visitors can walk or bike a mile along the Nature Park Graham Oaks Nature Park next to Wilsonville, Willamette River, connecting to the old allowing visitors to explore several habitats in Oregon City-to-West Linn bridge and the A reason to a single park. Whether you’re in the mood to Oregon City Municipal Elevator. From celebrate there trail users can enjoy the historic ride your bike on the regional Ice Age Tonquin The Amercian Hiking Society Trail, meander to a wetland overlook where McLoughlin House and the promenade designates the first Saturday you can spot birds or duck into the shade of a trail, which offers spectacular views of the in June each year as National conifer forest, there’s a trail for you. Willamette River. Trails Day.

19 Gresham MAX path, 2013-2014 25 Mount Talbert Nature Park trails To learn more, visit Design and preliminary engineering of If you explore Mount Talbert Nature Park’s www.americanhiking.org multi-use trail along the MAX Blue Line in four miles of trails, you might encounter downtown Gresham will connect businesses, deer, Western gray squirrels, woodpeckers, City Hall and the Main Street shopping area. white-breasted nuthatches and more. Towering above bustling Sunnyside Road, 20 Gresham-Fairview Trail this forested butte is one of three new This 5.2-mile trail will provide a north-south parks opened by Metro’s Natural Areas connection between the Springwater Corridor Program since 2007. and Marine Drive trails, linking neighborhoods, schools, businesses, parks and natural areas 26 Portland to Milwaukie MAX bridge, along the way. So far, the trail extends as far bike and pedestrian lanes, 2015 north as Halsey Street. When the new Portland to Milwaukie MAX line opens, you’ll be able to walk or bike 21 Ice Age Tonquin Trail across a new bridge connecting to trails on Named for floods that shaped the landscape both sides of the Willamette River. thousands of years ago, the Ice Age Tonquin Trail is taking big steps toward its eventual 27 Red Electric Trail in Portland 22-mile route connecting Sherwood, Tualatin Following the route of a former inter- and Wilsonville. In 2010, a one-mile section urban streetcar, a new one-mile section of of the trail made its debut with the opening trail serves the Hillsdale neighborhood in of Metro’s Graham Oaks Nature Park in Southwest Portland. Wilsonville, next to a cluster of schools and 28 Rock Creek Trail in Hillsboro the Villebois housing development. Next up Partners are making steady progress is a special section known as the Cedar Creek on the Rock Creek Trail. Hillsboro and Trail, which will trace its namesake creek in Washington County installed a safe, Sherwood; design and preliminary engineering signalized crosswalk at Evergreen Parkway. are under way. In summer 2012, Tualatin Hills Park & 22 Interstate 84 bike/pedestrian bridge over Recreation District began a construction the Sandy River, 2013 project on two gaps totaling more than a Attached to the new I-84 highway bridge, a mile, which will create a continuous 4.2- cantilevered bike and pedestrian bridge under mile trail spanning the park district from construction will connect users with Troutdale. east to west. Meanwhile, Hillsboro began construction extending the trail from 23 Marine Drive Trail, 2012-2013 Orchard Park south to Northwest A new mile-long section of trail will close Wilkins Street. an important gap in the Marine Drive Trail, between Northeast 102nd and 122nd avenues. For years, bicyclists riding through this area – Regional trail accomplishments • Progress Report 5

29 Rosemont Trail, 2013 33 Tickle Creek Trail in Sandy Soon, people will be able to walk and bike Surrounded by dense woods, a new 1.8-mile from Luscher Farms in Lake Oswego to section of the Tickle Creek Trail runs adjacent West Linn, using a new 1.1-mile trail with to its namesake creek and over a sewer line. New trails pervious paving. It is a key segment along the future Mount Hood Connections Trail, which will link to enjoy 30 bike and pedestrian Portland to Timberline Lodge – nearly lanes, 2015 35 miles. When the new Sellwood Bridge crosses the Willamette River, it will include bike and 34 Trolley Trail pedestrian lanes connecting people with More than two decades in the making, the trails on both sides of the water – six-mile Trolley Trail chugs through the heart Springwater on the Willamette on the of Oak Grove, connecting Milwaukie and east and West Willamette River Greenway Gladstone. This paved trail traces the route of and Powers Marine Park on the west. an historic trolley that closed for business in the 1950s. Ever since, the community rallied to 31 Springwater Corridor Ice Age Tonquin Trail at reinvent the tracks as a trail – a dream realized The Springwater Corridor is already the Graham Oaks Nature Park in 2012 for the residential neighborhoods, region’s signature trail, stretching more than retirement communities, parks and business 20 miles from the Portland riverfront to districts along the route. Boring – but it keeps getting better. In 2006, the Three Bridges project gave visitors a safe 35 Troutdale Gap of the 40-Mile Loop way to cross Johnson Creek, McLoughlin Next to the Troutdale airport, a paved one- Boulevard and the Union Pacific Railroad mile bike and pedestrian trail was built on a tracks. If you explore the trail’s eastern levee near the Columbia River. It connects stretches you’ll find it’s being paved from to the Interstate 84 bike and pedestrian Rugg Road to Boring, where the new Boring bridge over the Sandy River, which is under Springwater Corridor Station Trailhead Park opened in 2012. construction. Back in Portland, design and preliminary 36 Waud Bluff Trail engineering are paving the way to fill the A new bridge for pedestrians and cyclists “Sellwood gap” between Southeast connects the University of Portland with Umatilla Street and Southeast 13th Avenue. Swan Island in North Portland. This segment Trail users will have a new way to cross the is an important part of the North Portland last section of the gap, with bike and Willamette Greenway Trail. pedestrian improvements underway on Southeast Umatilla, Marion and Linn 37 Westside Trail Partners are making progress on the Westside Gresham-Fairview Trail streets, connecting to Southeast 19th Avenue and the Three Bridges. Last but not least, the Trail, which will travel 25 miles through Springwater will meet up with the new Tacoma urban and rural landscapes, connecting the Street park-and-ride when the Portland to Willamette River near Forest Park to the Milwaukie MAX line opens in 2015. Tualatin River at King City. A three-quarter- mile section from the Rock Creek Trail to 32 Southeast 17th Avenue Trail, 2015 Bronson Creek was built in 2009. In summer Bike lanes and a separated trail will span the 2012, construction began on three more gaps one-mile gap from the Springwater Corridor that will connect with existing sections to south to Milwaukie Riverfront Park and the create a six-mile stretch of trail. new Trolley Trail. Design and preliminary 8 engineering will soon be underway. Master plans mean trails are on the way rafting a trails plan is like writing a recipe 42 Ice Age Tonquin Trail C for a complicated, but crowd-pleasing, Named for floods that shaped the landscape dinner entrée. After coming together with thousands of years ago, the 22-mile Ice Age partners and gathering public input, you wind Tonquin Trail now has a completed master up with a list of ingredients: a route, a funding plan. When the whole trail is built, it will strategy, design details, a signage guide and connect the cities of Sherwood, Tualatin more. Unlike a cooking project, though, a trail and Wilsonville, as well as the Tualatin and can take years to bake. Willamette rivers – while giving visitors a link to the Fanno Creek Greenway Trail and 38 Active Transportation Plan, 2013 the Westside Trail. More than 1,000 people A comprehensive bike, pedestrian and trails helped shape the master plan by weighing plan for the region will better coordinate in at open houses, community festivals and with transit, improve safety for traveling to online. school and elsewhere, enhance public health, showcase economic benefits, and recommend 43 Mount Scott/Scouter Mountain Trail developing bike and pedestrian corridors that Loop, 2013-2014 cross multiple city and county lines. As part In fast-growing north Clackamas, the of the project, Metro’s regional trails system estimated 34-mile Mount Scott/Scouter map will be updated. The plan will help set Mountain Trail will create a loop around its regional priorities and better weave trail namesake buttes, connecting town centers, Explore now projects into local transportation systems. neighborhoods, schools and natural areas. Metro is partnering with the cities of Portland www.the 39 Council Creek Trail, 2013-2014 and Happy Valley, North Clackamas Parks and intertwine.org Starting in central Hillsboro, the Council Creek Recreation District and Clackamas County to Trail will extend 15 miles through Washington develop the trail master plan. Once complete County, Cornelius and Forest Grove to the the trail will link to important destinations junction of the Banks to Vernonia Trail in including the Springwater Corridor and Banks – and provide a connection to Stub Powell Butte to the north and Mount Talbert Stuart State Park. This trail provides easy and the Clackamas River to the south. access to local trails, the MAX Blue Line and U.S. 26, making it a key corridor for 44 North Portland Willamette alternative transportation. Greenway Trail Tracing the Willamette River from the Steel 40 East Metro Connections Plan Bridge to Kelley Point Park, the 10-mile North This two-year effort analyzed transportation Portland Willamette Greenway Trail will challenges and solutions on the east side someday connect Portland’s downtown to of the region, identifying specific projects Kelly Point Park. It will allow people to travel for the next two decades. Among those from Washington to Oregon, and from the recommendations is an off-street trail system Columbia River to the Willamette. to connect the Beaver Creek Canyon Trail in 45 Troutdale to the Springwater Corridor, about Portland to Lake Oswego Trail, Central six miles south. Section, 2014 This four-mile proposed trail will connect 41 French Prairie Bridge Study, 2013-2014 the Johns Landing area in Portland to Lake Partners are evaluating the feasibility of a bike Oswego. The trail may follow an old railroad and pedestrian bridge crossing the Willamette line on local, low-traffic streets; bike lanes River in Wilsonville, west of the Interstate 5 along Macadam Avenue/Oregon 43 are also . If it is built, the bridge would a possibility. link the Ice Age Tonquin Trail to Newberg, wine country and beyond.

Regional trail accomplishments • Progress Report 9 46 Portland-Vancouver Bi-State Regional 49 Tigard Greenways Trail System Trails System Plan Master Plan This long-term vision, a partnership with From prioritizing trail gaps to completing the U.S. National Park Service, lays the regional and community trails, Tigard’s new groundwork for planning, design and master plan lays the groundwork for an construction of 37 regional trails, 20 in interconnected network of trails that help Oregon and 17 in Washington. The system people get around the city and beyond. will be approximately 1,200 miles – about the Highlights include segments of the Fanno distance from Portland to Mexico, if all those Creek Trail and Tualatin River Greenway Trail. trails were laid out in one straight line. Some 50 Tualatin River Water Trail of the trails will in fact take people beyond the Imagine a beautiful canoeing or kayaking metropolitan area, connecting to Mount Hood trip along the Tualatin River with frequent, Trolley Trail and the Pacific Ocean. easy-to-access launch sites from Hillsboro to Smith and Bybee Wetlands West Linn. As one step in making this vision 47 Trails lead Comprehensive Natural Resource a reality, a new small-craft launch site has the way Management Plan, 2013 been selected for Metro’s Farmington natural In 2008, Portland At nearly 2,000 acres, Smith and Bybee area. For now, public launch sites in the became the first large Wetlands Natural Area is one of the largest lower river exist only in Tualatin and Tigard. US. city to achieve protected wetlands within an American city The next public access point is almost 20 platinum Bicycle Friendly and one of the region’s best-kept secrets. miles upstream, at Hillsboro’s Rood Bridge Community status from Under this plan, a regional trail around the Park. When funding is identified to build the League of American former St. Johns Landfill will give visitors a the Farmington site, it will offer another Bicyclists. better experience at the natural area and easily accessible launch point and promote better ways to connect with other regional awareness of water quality issues and wildlife trails, including the North Portland Willamette habitat protection. Greenway Trail and new links in the 40-Mile 51 Westside Trail, 2013 Loop. Someday, the 25-mile Westside Trail will 48 Sullivan’s Gulch Trail in Portland travel through urban and rural landscapes A concept plan gives shape to a long-held connecting the Willamette River near Forest vision: connecting the Eastbank Esplanade Park to the Tualatin River at King City – and with the Interstate 205 multi-use path, via a neighborhoods, businesses and schools along five-mile trail. Separated from traffic along the way. Metro is working together with the north side of Interstate 84, the Sullivan’s residents, cities, parks districts and community Gulch Trail will provide a safe, comfortable and organizations to create a vision for a trail that direct active transportation option. It will also will provide a continuous north-south route, link users with the Gateway Transit Center and as well as a connection to the 40-Mile Loop, future Gateway Green Park. the Rock Creek Trail and the developing Ice Age Tonquin Trail.

10 Regional trail accomplishments • Progress Report Special projects keep things moving

reating a regional trails network and public outreach category. Oregon takes more than just a bunch of great Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici presented Cindividual trails. With that in mind, the trails the award for the website, which received a community is coming together around grant from the Oregon Parks and Recreation broader projects and initiatives. Whether Department and technical assistance from it’s completing the 40-Mile Loop, engaging Metro staff. the public or connecting with one another, Intertwine trail signs advocates are finding ways to advance Intertwine wayfinding signage debuted on the their vision. Fanno Creek Trail in Tigard in 2012. Thanks Completing the 40-Mile Loop to an Oregon Department of Transportation The 40-Mile Loop, envisioned in 1903 as a grant secured by Metro, more signs will be network of trails and parks, actually spans installed along the Trolley Trail in Clackamas From east more than 140 miles today. It is comprised County and the Rock Creek Trail in Hillsboro in to west of many regional trails, such as the 2014. Larger, “iconic” signs will be placed at Springwater Corridor, Peninsula Crossing other locations to promote The Intertwine. Trail, Eastbank Esplanade, Leif Erickson Trail Networking and community events and Terwilliger Parkway. And the Loop is still As local trail fans will tell you, creating a growing – Metro has secured the rights to fill world-class system is all about connecting gaps on nearly two dozen properties, using – and they do just that through a steady funds from a voter-approved 2006 bond stream of events. About 1,000 people have measure. A local private family foundation attended Quarterly Trails Forums, which bring supported the effort by paying part of the together trail planners, advocates, nonprofit salary of a Metro real estate negotiator organizations and citizens to discuss regional Gresham-Fairview Trail who focused on trails. Meanwhile, nine trail issues and plans. The Metro Regional trail projects have been built, are under Trails Fair kicked off in 2011 and grew in construction or are in the design and 2012, attracting 250 people. More than 1,500 preliminary engineering phase. people have participated in field trips and GIS database of trails guided tours since 2007. A few times a year, In 2010, Metro revamped its aging trails GIS Intertwine Alliance summits give nature lovers layer by adding the exact locations of every another venue to network. trail from the Coast Range to Mount Hood Regional trail counts National Forest. The database is kept up-to- After trails are on the ground, we want to Intertwine signage date by Metro’s Data Resource Center staff, know how many people use them. Since who routinely add the latest alignments for 2008, Metro has coordinated regional planned trails that have been adopted by local trail counts and surveys in the four-county city councils and parks commissions. This data metropolitan area. Every September, more layer is available free to the public via Metro’s than a dozen local and state partners and 100 RLIS Live website. volunteers join efforts to survey 100 sites, from Intertwine Alliance parks and the Eastbank Esplanade to the new Ice Age trails website Tonquin Trail at Graham Oaks Nature Park. In The Intertwine’s spiffy new website, www. addition, Metro and the Tualatin Hills Park & theintertwine.org, is a one-stop shop for Recreation District have year-round electronic Westside Trail information about the region’s trails and counters at key nature parks. Metro intends to outdoor destinations. Want to take a stroll install them at 10 new locations, including trail with the family? Train for a century ride? sites in Happy Valley and along the Trolley Trail Explore a natural area along the way? The in Clackamas County. Intertwine has an experience for you. No wonder the site won a national award from the Coalition for Recreational Trails in 2012, getting recognition in the communications

11 About Metro Clean air and clean water do not stop at city limits or county Thanks, partners lines. Neither does the need for Hundreds of governments, nonprofits, community jobs, a thriving economy, and groups and citizens are working together to put trails on sustainable transportation and living choices for people and the ground. Special thanks go out to these partners. businesses in the region. Voters have asked Metro to help with Counties States Community groups the challenges and opportunities Clackamas County State of Washington 40-Mile Loop Land Trust that affect the 25 cities and Clark County State of Oregon Bicycle Transportation Alliance three counties in the Portland Columbia County Blue Ribbon Committee for Trails metropolitan area. Other agencies Multnomah County Chinook Trails Association Multnomah County Drainage A regional approach simply Washington County District Columbia Land Trust makes sense when it comes to Columbia Slough Watershed Cities Port of Portland providing services, operating Council venues and making decisions City of Battle Ground, Wash. Portland Bureau of Transportation Gateway Green about how the region grows. City of Beaverton Portland Bureau of Environmental Metro works with communities Services Friends of Baltimore Woods Community of Boring to support a resilient economy, Portland Bureau of Planning and Friends of Forest Park City of Cornelius keep nature close by and Sustainability The Intertwine Alliance City of Durham respond to a changing climate. Portland State University NpGreenway Together, we’re making a great City of Estacada TriMet Oregon Walks place, now and for generations City of Fairview U.S. Department of Transportation Portland State University to come. City of Forest Grove U.S. National Park Service Smith and Bybee Natural Area Stay in touch with news, stories City of Gladstone Advisory Committee and things to do. Park districts and agencies City of Gresham SW Trails PDX Clackamas County Parks www.oregonmetro.gov/connect City of Happy Valley Trail Keepers of Oregon North Clackamas Parks and City of Hillsboro The Trust for Public Land Recreation District City of King City Tryon Creek Watershed Council Metro Council President Oregon Parks and Recreation Tom Hughes City of Lake Oswego Department Tualatin Riverkeepers City of Milwaukie University of Portland Metro Councilors Portland Parks & Recreation City of Oregon City Shirley Craddick, District 1 Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation Urban Greenspaces Institute Carlotta Collette, District 2 City of Portland District Washington Trails Association Craig Dirksen, District 3 City of Sandy U.S. Forest Service Kathryn Harrington, District 4 City of Sherwood Vancouver-Clark Parks & Community advoctes Sam Chase, District 5 Recreation City of Tigard and volunteers across Bob Stacey, District 6 City of Troutdale Utilities the region Auditor City of Tualatin Bonneville Power Administration Suzanne Flynn City of Vancouver, Wash. Portland General Electric City of West Linn City of Wilsonville City of Wood Village

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