Welcoming Visitors
Here, we can see the visitor center with interpretive art and wayfinding elements in the foreground.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks Interpretative Art
A close-up of the interpretive art that shows the kind of wildlife that can be found in the park.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks Example of Native Plant Restoration
A community of restored native plants surrounds the visitor center pavilion.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks Explaning the Underground Water Infrastructure
The visitor center pavilion features interpretive displays of water infrastructure components that lie beneath Powell Butte Nature Park.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks Mountain View Trailhead
In addition to serving as water storage infrastructure for Portland, Powell Butte offers more than nine miles of trails to accommodate hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders. The Mountain View Trail is paved to the summit, which offers views of the Cascades, including Mt. Hood, on clear days. Most of the other trails are gravel or dirt. Pets, horses, and mountain bikes are allowed on the trails.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks Summit Habitat
Abundant wildlife populates the park, including rabbits, ring-necked pheasants, ground squirrels, raccoons, gray foxes, skunks, bats, chipmunks, coyotes, and black-tailed mule deer. The park is home to many birds of prey, with its open meadows, groves of wild hawthorn trees, forested slopes of western red cedar, and wetlands near Johnson Creek.
Image: Chris Cheng / GreenWorks And Then Below
A view of the underground water storage reservoir that underlies the park. The reservoir's 26-inch thick concrete roof is supported by 540 columns. Its concrete floor is 30 inches thick.
Image: Patty Nelson