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Masonic Cemetery to Obsidian Lodge

  • Start date: 05/27/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/27/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Departure Place 25th and University, Main gate with signage—not the dead end road to the Abbey. 

We will stroll through the cemetery up to the Obsidian Lodge and on the Ribbon Trail to Hendricks Park. The trip will take around 2 ½ hours so that we are back at the cemetery by noon for Taps at the Public Square and a visit inside Hope Abbey Mausoleum for coffee and cake.
Steve Adey sent this information: There is a 1:30 Cemetery Highlights tour led by a Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association board member. http://eugenemasoniccemetery.org/index.html
The publications link has numerous interesting things like a walking tour map and bios of folks buried there

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 800

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

After a short stroll in the cemetery, we headed for Emerald Street where Jim Northrop had made arrangements for Hugh Prichard to give us a tour of his Bog, a colorful wetland. From there we headed up the back way to the Laurelwood Golf Course to catch the Ribbon Trail to the Obsidian Lodge and Hendricks Park. Jim and Elizabeth described their volunteer activities with Friends of Hendricks Park. We were back at the cemetery around 11:30 in time to visit the Abbey, eat cake, and for Jim to arrange for Sally, a member of the Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association, to give an overview of the Abby restoration. At noon we joined others at the Public Square for Taps. Established in 1859 the Eugene Masonic Cemetery is a welcoming place to visit and reflect.