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Overview
The easiest way to see Tryon Creek State Park is to grab a map at the Nature Center, which is located at the main trailhead, and explore on your own schedule, heading back to the trailhead when you are ready. There isn't really anything other than the creek itself that is a "must-see", so any hike you do, you won't have to walk away feeling like you missed something. However, the route described below keeps you inside of the park, but on both sides of the creek, to offer a good quick foray any time of the year. If you are planning to hike here in the wet season, you may want to strongly consider bringing shoes that you don't mind getting muddy and possibly a clean change for the car. The park has special trails for bicyclists and horses, and is also popular with joggers, but this route keeps you on trails for hikers only. The park is named after Socrates Tryon, Jr., who owned these 645 acres in the mid-19th century and then sold out to the Oregon Iron Company in 1874. The forests here were heavily logged by Lake Oswego's iron industry for charcoal production. Go left at the Nature Center, and then keep right at the junction with the Ruth Pennington Trillium Trail to continue on the very wide path of the Old Main Trail through the lush woods of hemlock, maple, and Douglas-fir. At the junction with the Red Fox Trail, turn left and make four switchbacks down to cross the Red Fox Bridge over Tryon Creek; then head up to the junction with the South Creek Trail. There are views of the alder and maple-shaded creek down to the left and right. Stay right on the Red Fox Trail, and wind up to the junction with the Cedar Trail, marked by an old sign. Make a left on the Cedar Trail, a more natural hiking trail that follows a ridge and then contours above Tryon Creek. The trail levels on a bluff and then drops into a gully and crosses a footbridge. Then the path rises on steps and passes a large stump before heading through a salmonberry thicket. Pacific waterleaf carpets the forest floor here. The tread rises to the ju
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