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Overview
The Fanno Creek Trail is a suburban walking/jogging/cycling greenway that currently runs through Beaverton and Tigard. Some of the route is on city sidewalks. Plans are to extend the trail from the Tualatin to the Willamette River in downtown Portland. The total length of the current trail is 8.3 miles one-way including the short extension beyond the Tigard Library. Most people do only parts of this trail, which runs through several parks in each city. The description below divides the Beaverton section of the trail into two parts. 1. Garden Home Recreation Center to Denney Road Distance: 4.9 miles round-trip From the Garden Home Trailhead, take the paved trail from the north end of the parking lots. To your right is a cutting that once was the route of the old Oregon Electric Railroad. Steps lead down to the right, and you can follow a dirt path under maples to rejoin the paved trail in a shady cedar grove. The Portland Golf Club soon shows itself behind high fences on the right, and there are small meadows and wetlands. Interpretive signs detail the history of the railroad. Pass the newly constructed 86th Avenue Pump Station complex after negotiating a boardwalk, and then cross SW 86th. Soon you'll pass over Fanno Creek itself: you can look down to see the rotting pilings that supported the old railroad bridge here. The route enters a tunnel of green dominated by hazel; in the winter, look up into the bare branches and see numerous leafy squirrel nests. You'll then pass Vista Brook Park, which has a small loop trail, pond and a line of cottonwoods that glow bright yellow in the fall. You need to cross SW 90th before you come to SW 92nd. Here, go right and join the sidewalk on Allen Boulevard for a block. After you follow the sidewalk in front of Burgerville, cross Scholls Ferry, and then bear left to cross Allen Boulevard at a busy intersection. Keep straight on a one-block section of the Fanno Creek Trail along Scholls Ferry Road. This section of trail, opened in 2012, then veers right into a natural
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