Nature Park for Volunteer Park Rules Powell Butte Animals and People Opportunities Your cooperation and thoughtfulness is appreciated by other responsible park users Nature Park You can help lend a hand alongside and by wildlife that make their home at Portland Parks & Recreation, Friends Powell Butte Nature Park. Visitors are 16160 SE Powell Boulevard of Powell Butte, and other community asked to observe the following rules: Portland, Oregon 97236 volunteers in completing important TRAIL MAP INCLUDED stewardship projects on Powell Butte • Do not go off trail. • Keep pets on leashes at all times. Volunteer at monthly events held the • Dispose of waste properly: pack it in, pack second Saturday of every month (except for it out. December). • No harvesting. Vegetation may not be Call 503-823-6131 for additional removed or intentionally damaged. information, or visit portlandoregon. • Motorized vehicles are prohibited beyond gov/parks/workparty. parking areas; park in designated lots only. Do not block fire/emergency lanes. Powell Butte Nature Park is a unique 611- acre upland area, rich in natural resources • Alcohol, firearms, open fires, camping, and within easy reach of city dwellers. golfing, smoking, tobacco use, fireworks, and vending are prohibited. Over eight miles of trails accommodate Friends of Powell • No drones or other flying devices allowed hikers, bird watchers, mountain bikers, and in the park. horseback riders. A wheelchair-accessible Butte • Observe seasonally adjusted gate hours. paved trail makes the heart of the park Friends of Powell Butte is a non-profit • Pedestrians/bicyclists/equestrians are accessible to nature lovers of all abilities. organization consisting of neighbors and asked to be respectful and slow down friends concerned about the qualities and Abundant wildlife populates the park, when passing. resources of Powell Butte Nature Park. including rabbits, voles, raccoons, skunks, Friends of Powell Butte work closely • Observe trail closures during muddy bats, chipmunks, coyotes, and black-tailed conditions. with Portland Parks & Recreation and mule deer. Spring-nesting neotropical the Portland Water Bureau in planning birds also live in both forest and field in the and implementing park improvements, Nature Park. The Nature Park is noted for providing volunteer assistance, and offering its birds of prey because its open meadows, community input. forested slopes of Douglas-fir and big leaf maple, and wetlands together provide Monthly meetings are held the third excellent habitat and abundant food sources. Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Powell Butte Visitor Center.

For more information or to donate, visit PORTLANDPARKS.ORG friendsofpowellbutte.org. Commissioner Amanda Fritz Director Mike Abbaté Powell Butte Trails Powell Butte -

Miles of trails invite you to explore Powell Then and Now Butte Nature Park. As you hike, bird-watch, bicycle, or horse ride through the park, HISTORY AND PRESENT USE please note the designated uses and stay on Powell Butte Nature Park lies in the Johnson the appropriate trails. Creek Watershed in southeast Portland, one of a series of volcanic lava domes which PARKING AND TRANSIT form the Boring/East Buttes Lava Domes. The entrance road to the Powell Butte parking lot is at SE 162nd Avenue and Powell Powell Butte Nature Park’s recent history Boulevard. Special parking areas are available begins with the purchase of the 556-acre for buses and equestrian trailers. TriMet Wilson Homestead in 1925 by the City of Portland. The City’s early recognition that serves the park through the #9 route. Powell Butte’s location and elevation would be of high value as a water reservoir site TRAIL ACCESS th was first utilized in the 1960s when two Trails enter the park at SE 148 Avenue above-ground tanks were constructed th and Center Street, SE 145 Avenue and by the Powell Valley Road Water District. Ellis Street, SE 136th Avenue and Holgate This was followed by Portland Water Boulevard, SE 141st Avenue and Raymond Bureau’s completion of a 50-million-gallon Street, from the Springwater Corridor Trail, underground reservoir in 1980, and a 66- and from SE Anderegg Loop. inch water transmission line linking Powell Butte to Washington County in 1983, and the second 50-million gallon underground reservoir in 2015.

The Summit with Powell Butte Nature Park’s history includes Endless Views agricultural use. Years ago a farmhouse stood near the location of the first underground reservoir. The walnut orchard offers The summit of Powell Butte near the summit is approximately 100 years spectacular views of Cascade Mountain old. Until 1990 Meadowland Dairy, from its peaks, including Mount St. Helens and location near the northeast corner of Powell Mount Adams to the north, Mount Hood Butte, used the Butte’s 300-acre grassland to the east, and Mount Jefferson to the for grazing. southeast.

For an informed view, follow the wheelchair- accessible Mountain View Trail and Summit Lane to the northeast corner of the walnut orchard. There, at Powell Butte’s highest point of more than 600 feet, you’ll see the Mountain Finder pointing out several Cascade Mountain peaks and nearby buttes.