Past Activity

National Trails Day

  • 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.

Oliver compacting.

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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