Forest Park NW PDX Entrance — Attraction in Portland

If you like or love nature and want to get out of downtown Portland, this is a great place to do and a wonderful outdoor experience. There are both paved paths and hiking paths to take in the greenery all around you.

One tip, make sure you plan where you want to go if you are going to visit this attraction. It is large and has multiple entrances, so depending on what you want to see there, do your research. We took a Uber to the back entrance and missed out on some of the interesting parts, but enjoyed it all the same. Taking an Uber from the city is cheap and quick to this back entrance and would assume it is a bit more to go to main entrance where some points of interest are.

It can be damp, so wear good walking shoe and bring an umbrella or poncho with you just in case. The paved path does have lots of joggers and speeding mountain bikers, so pay attention because they were kind of rude in their presence and seemed to pop up...

My ultimate goal in Oregon was to hike some trails and see some breathtaking Fall scenery in the mountains and hills. This beyond exceeded my expectations. Their are distance markers and we hiked in 1.5 miles and then turned back. This was only because sunset was approaching. The trail we were on (Thurman street start) winded up and through the mountain. I️ couldn’t have asked for a better time of year to go. Inclines and declines were not bad. Wear trail shoes or boots! People were also on the track with bikes and dogs but you have plenty of space. Their are side trails off the main path with higher levels of difficulty but again, we went too late in the day to get too far in. What I saw though was enough to already...

A popular trail head to Forest Park. When I go running in the Forest Park usually I take the Lower Macleay Park trail head because it's closer to home and businesses but sometimes I'll take a detour here.

It's very close to the starting point of Leif Erikson Drive, which is a popular multi-use trail so I guess this is one of the more popular entry points to the Forest Park, especially because you can ride mountain bike here. (If you enter through Lower Macleay Park, for example, you have to walk quite far to make a loop and it's...