Name: National Trails Day
Start: 2025-06-07T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-06-07T12:00:00-07:00

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National Trails Day

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Start date: 06/07/2025
Start time: 9:00 AM
End date: 06/07/2025
End time: 12:00 PM

Description:

Join us on National Trails Day to improve the Spencer Butte Trailhead. We'll be resurfacing the ADA trail, cutting back blackberries, cleaning the steps, and doing other assorted trailhead improvements.

Meet at the main Spencer Butte Trailhead parking lot, the paved lot on Willamette.

Photo by: Matthew Bell

Event Leader: Matt Bell
Event Leader Phone: 503-884-8829
Event Leader Email: matthew.v.bell@gmail.com
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Stewardship
Area Type: Urban
Departure Location: See Trip Description
Rating: Moderate
Roundtrip total drive miles:
Season: 2025
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required:
participant prerequisites: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, and gloves are provided by the City's Parks and Open Space division.
Conditions:
Total Distance: 2
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 500
Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Stewardship
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

On this special day we met up with Marlon to work on trailhead improvements to the ADA trail at the trailhead. Even with manual wheelbarrows we made short work spreading gravel on a short ungraveled section while Marlon cutdown a log to create a retaining feature on a corner so that we could fill it with large rock and cap it with gravel. We compacted the gravel before leaving to create a longer lasting durable trail surface.<br />
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Special thanks go to Clara for diligently cleaning the trailhead steps and Janet for bringing scrumptious snacks.

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