Name: U of O Campus Walk
Start: 2022-10-07T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-10-07T23:59:59-07:00

Past Activity

Canceled: U of O Campus Walk

Start date: 10/07/2022
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 10/07/2022
End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This walk will start from the front entrance steps of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Join a stroll through old and new parts of the U of O Campus to observe the landscaping, its trees that may have taken on some fall color, its flowers and edges of paths.

Parking: The visit should last no more than 2 hours; you may find 2-hour parking signs on N-S streets south of 18th Avenue and on E-W streets west of Alder St. There are 3- and 5-hour meters a bit closer to the art museum; however right along Kincaid,next to Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, you need to have downloaded a parking app.

If you are an Osher Lifelong Learning member, and you have registered your vehicle, unlimited time parking available in the Baker Center lot, and 1/3 mile walk to campus or EmX ride to Dad's Gate Station.

Event Leader: Joanna Alexander
Event Leader Phone: 541-513-9624
Event Leader Email: joalexgypsy@gmail.com
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Trips
Area Type: Urban
Departure Location: See Trip Description
Rating: Easy
Roundtrip total drive miles:
Season: 2022
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required:
participant prerequisites:
Conditions:
Total Distance: 2.5
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain:
Non-Member Fees: 2
Committee: Trips
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

After a smoke watch to see if the air turned unhealthy as it might with the huge Cedar Creek fire still burning in the east, several of us gathered to visit and admire the marvelous trees of campus. On a misty and cool morning, we strolled among coeds and trees, stopping occasionally to feel the presence of and discuss such trees as the young female Gingko in the Old Quad and its male suitor around the corner, the Bigleaf maple planted by the first janitor, the Dawn redwoods, purple European beech, the Condon oak, the Moon tree, the Coast redwood transplanted from a terrarium in the nineteen twenties, and the Caucasian wingnut. Photo taken in front of the Giant sequoia which lost its crown in the Columbus Day storm of 1962, but continues to thrive.