Tualatin Hills Nature Park — Attraction in Beaverton

This local small park is home to many birds that we won't out on our hikes in nature unless we look for them. Nature Center with bathrooms inside, nice museum inside the Nature Center too. Bathrooms outside the center open everyday. Large parking lot at main entrance with picnic tables in one area close to Nature Center. Staff are very accommodating. There is a nice large map and map brochures to guide visitors through the park. There are 2 main ponds with Beaverton Creek connecting one of them. In the mid to late fall the migrating diving ducks return and leave sometime in March. There are plenty of Trails such as;

The Vine Maple Trail (paved) Oak Trail (paved & wooden boardwalk) Big Fir Trail - dirt Ponderosa Trail - dirt Owl Trail - dirt Old Wagon Trail - dirt & boardwalk Mink Trail - dirt Trillium Loop Trail - dirt Ash Loop Trail - dirt Chicadee Loop Trail - dirt Tadpole Pond Trail - dirt You will encounter walkers/hikers, birders, photographers, runners, children educational groups, families and cyclists on the paved trails. This park has 2 ponds (1 is near the Big Fir Trail / boardwalk - the other is near the Vine Maple Trail ) Typical species of birds here?

Woodpeckers Robins / Thrush Spotted Towhee Sparows Jays Red Tail Hawk Coopers Hawk Barred Owl Great Horned Owl Sapsuckers Nuthatch / Brown Creeper Vario Bush Tits Crow Northern Flicker There are squirrel here; . Fox Squirrel Eastern Grey Squirrel Douglas Squirrel Black Tailed Deer Mink (rare) Long Tailed Weasel (rare) Coyote (rare) Brush Rabbit The park is well known for banana slugs and the Rough Skinned Newt. There are lots of mushrooms out there and other fungi. Some areas get pretty muddy in the winter months so if you plan to go onto the dirt trails after it has been raining you will encounter mud and water. NO DOGS ALLOWED!!

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I love this place, its truly a vortex of nostalgia and charming nature. We come here to walk and decompress, to share a moment with the trees in mutual communion. I've taken several of the trails here, namely the vine and maple one. I think that one is one of the "main" trails there, if you could call it that. The trees are rich with lichen and the likes, vines and other curling ferns are seen. With that being said, when it rains, it pours...it creates a lot of puddles and some flooding throughout the park that could make it unsafe. So continue with caution. I went recently and we came across a huge flood on the bridge of the vine and maple trail, we proceeded with caution since there was some space on the left but continued to walk anyway. It proved to get more difficult so we ended up finding a side trail to take us out of the park but also in the most convenient route to where we were headed, in general.

We went the wrong way on one trail because of the fact that it proved to be dryer than any trails yet. We come across a park ranger who I guess was very ill sensed about us walking there. She condescended us and basically said where we're going (where she came from) was wetter and worse than where we just journeyed from (which couldn't possibly be true and we found out it wasn't). She walked away and we were like, so what to do? I mean, we didn't plan the massive rain fall. We continued to walk down the trail anyway, unscathed by puddles and floods. See.

I love this park but just really watch out during the rainy days, and also for some of the grumbling haunts that are...the...

Nice place for a walk. A variety of plant communities, birds, and wildflowers. If you walk in the rain, watch for newts and banana slugs. Trails are relatively clean. Trails are dirt, gravel or paved. Some areas get muddy. In wet weather trails can get large puddles or covered with flowing water due to poor design or lack of maintenance. This can be hazardous. Some trails are subject to seasonal flooding. Bridges and boardwalks in some areas. Benches and information panels are available along the trails. Most intersections are signed with trail names and directions to destinations. Maps are posted at access points and locations along the trails. Printed maps are available at Nature Center. Bicycles are allowed on some trails. Dogs are not allowed. The restrooms available at the Nature Center are clean and well maintained. Made a loop by walking SW 170th Ave from Big Fir Trail to Maple Vine Trail. Do not advise. Walking on SW 170th was dangerous. No sidewalk or shoulder. The sewer upgrade project impact area is a mess. It will be interesting to see what they do for restoration of the impact area. On a visit in Feb. 2023 the impact area was being planted. Unfortunately it looks like the plants were mostly planted in lines and look unnatural. On a March 2023 visit much of the impact area was under flood water. Hopefully this will make it look...