Starts 6:30pm, at Stephenson School main parking lot
This year’s walk is a 2 ½ mile loop with significant elevation gain and it will last about 1 ½ hours. There will be a rest stop half way through and optional drinks and refreshments at the end.
The walk starts promptly at 6:30pm. Your experienced tour guides will lead you on a discovery loop highlighting three City of Portland owned properties and the narrow strip of Lake Oswego that dips into our neighborhood. First, we’ll take a look at a Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) lot that may be become a community garden as part of the West Portland Town Center Plan. Then we’ll hike up to our neighborhood’s highest point, take a hidden shortcut to Lake Oswego, explore a trail bordered by a city stormwater bioswale, visit a Green Street sidewalk planter and end with optional refreshments and socializing in a neighbor’s lovely garden. Walk will primarily be on city streets and sidewalks with two short sections of unpaved path. Well-behaved dogs are welcome as long as their owners are on leashes the whole time.
Please join us for refreshments and socializing in a neighbor’s garden even if you can’t make the walk. Some walkers may decide to cut the walk short at the half-way point and head back to Stephenson and then over to the garden.