Scouters Mountain Nature Park FIELD GUIDE

Fir trees sway overhead and songbirds years ago. Metro acquired this site in 2011 chirp as you travel up the narrow road to and, spent three years restoring its 100 Scouters Mountain, creating a pervasive acres of mature , big leaf maple feeling of deep, sheltering woods. Near the and white oak forest to make way top of the road, a plateau offers stunning for the region’s newest nature park. About views of Mt. Hood on clear days. After you half of the forest includes trees more than visit, you’ll see why thousands of Boy a century old, with some that have grown Scouts made this journey over the years to here for more than 220 years. Metro has camp and explore here; Scouters feels like removed invasive weeds from the a very special place. If you look closely at mountain’s northern slopes and planted the picnic shelter at the top of the park, some 30,000 native trees and shrubs. The you will spot salvaged beams from the forest will continue to be monitored for legendary Chief Obie Lodge — the site of years to come. many weddings, community events and summer camps before it closed in 2004. Restoration efforts have helped create an amazing new nature park to explore, as Rising more than 700 feet above the well as habitat for sensitive species such as growing communities of Happy Valley and migratory birds. Listen for their calls as Pleasant Valley, Scouters Mountain gives you hike the park’s twisting trails, taking you an opportunity to explore an extinct you past huge Douglas firs. After your dome. Like other buttes in the area, walk, enjoy a snack and take in views of this forested is part of the the valley and surrounding mountains. Boring Lava Field that formed millions of oregonmetro.gov/scouters

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