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My goal in writing this book was to provide the first comprehensive guide to every worthwhile walk of at least 1 mile, on still-wild public lands, and accessible by a drive of an hour or less from Portland. The one-hour driving time is from somewhere in the major cities and suburbs of the greater Portland/Vancouver area. That does not mean that every drive will be less than one hour for every resident. If you live in Hillsboro, it may take you up to 45 minutes just to get to Gresham, on the other side of the metropolitan area, before you start the one-hour drive to Mt. Hood. Nonetheless, every trip has a short enough drive time to qualify as a good spur-of-the-moment adventure.

The hikes range in difficulty from simple strolls through urban preserves to rugged climbs in the Columbia River Gorge and on glacier-clad Mt. Hood. There are paths here familiar to every Portland hiker as well as dozens of new routes never covered in any guidebook. They have in common a convenient proximity to Portland and a wild character that allows city residents to “get away from it all.”