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Marquam Nature Park 3.52 miles -- 600' elevation gain (plus little hills) |
At Broadway Drive,Trail #6 to the north goes up the stairs across the street, and to the south goes up Broadway Drive a short distance to Edgewood Dr and Sherwood Drive. We take Trail #6 to the south: a block of Broadway Dr, then veering up to Sherwood Dr. Look for the signs. Follow Tr #6 all the way to Fairmount Blvd (elevation 850') and then to Marquam Hill Rd, but note the shortcut a little before the intersection of Sherwood Dr and Sherwood Pl. Take Trail #1 down Marquam Hill Rd but watch for the Marquam Gulch Trail (upper branch of the Forty-Mile Trail) to the left, 220 yards down from the intersection. Stay on the trail, taking the branch to the left just before the branch to the right drops downto the creek bed. This puts us on the Dan & Rusty Goldy Corridor trail (a memorial plaque-on-a-rock is located just below Sherwood Dr on the main trail) A very large poison ivy vine has been growing on a tree about 15 yards to the right of the trail, at a point directly below the dead end of Sherwood Dr--on the above map it's right on top of the "R" in the word "NATURE.". (Very close to the vine, there's an illicit trail up to the house at the end of Sherwood Dr.) The route turns to the west as it rounds the ridge and eventually comes to the intersection with the main trail which takes us back down to the shelter. |
Posion Ivy |
Mt Hood as seen from this route
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