Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge and Sellwood Park

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Difficulty: Easy
Length: 3.5 miles / 5.6 km
Duration: Half day

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Overview: This is a great place to go bird watching. You will follow a path along the east side of a wetland area where you may see some Flycatchers or even ospreys that nest nearby. Once you get to the northern parking area you will turn around and then return via the beautiful Springwater bike trail past Sellwood Park where you can head down to the beach for a side trip with great views of Portland over the Willamette River.

Tips: The best parking area is the one on the corner of Southeast 7th Ave and Sellwood Ave near the baseball field. There is no fee to park here.

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South End Parking 1

Park here next to the tennis courts or further north at POI #2 off of SE 7th Street.

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Parking #2

This is a bigger lot specifically for the sports fields I think but feel free to park here to start out on the path.

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North Parking Lot

You can park here if you approach the park from the north.

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Return via Springwater Trail

Here you will take a right to connect onto the Springwater bike trail to return on the west side of the wetland.

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View over Wildlife Refuge

A nice view across the wetland to residential houses on the other side from the Springwater on the Willamette bike path you will return on.

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Sellwood Park

When you are nearly done with your ride head on over to neighboring Sellwood Riverfront Park to relax on the shore of the Willamette with a great view of downtown Portland over the water. You'll have a great view of the sellwood bridge as well.

Pictures in this guide taken by: Photo by Finetooth @ wiki Commons, available under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License., gozirra, Photo by Chad @ Flickr, available under a Creative Commons Attribution - 2.0 Generic License., Photo by Bandita @ Flicker, available under a Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License

Jonathan Ellinger

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