#4 – Kelly Butte Nature park
This is #4 of 101 Cool Portland Places, Kelly Butte Park.
I love the hiking trails in Kelly Butte because it has not been “civilized” yet. Unlike Mt. tabor with it’s carved out paths and man-made structures and large quantities of joggers, Kelly Butte is a bit of untouched mountain hiking yet in the middle of the city of Portland.
Forest Park in the NW Portland hills has a similar feel as Kelly Butte, but Forest park is so much larger and epic in proportion. My favorite memory of hiking in Kelly butte is when we had the huge snow storm of 2009, a group of friends and I hiked around Kelly Butte with no civilization in sight. Then we all started to get worried cause the snow was getting deep and we might find our selves in trouble…then we thought, “wait a second, we are still in the middle of the city, the, 109th street is right down this hill, everything is going to be OK”.
As you are driving on the 205 Freeway, you can see Kelly butte to the east as you are inbetween the Division and Powell streets in SE Portland. Kelly butte does have public hiking trails and you can find them on the 103rd ave. in the Cherry Park neighborhood off Division if you go all the way up the hill.
Enjoy the hike,
Kevin
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