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A large percentage of these hikes are open year-round. So this guide also serves as a winter hikes manual. The northwest’s notoriously soggy winters often make trails muddy. With waterproof boots and the proper attitude, however, hikers can enjoy many fine trails all year.

Many worthwhile urban and semi-urban walks have been excluded because they don’t qualify as “wild.” If you are looking for a quick leg-stretcher, and don’t mind a landscape that features manicured lawns or picnic tables, then try any of the many easy hikes in city parks and greenways. Often these routes follow paved trails that hikers share with joggers and bicyclists. Among the best of these options are the Fanno Creek Greenway in Beaverton, the Fernhill wetlands in Forest Grove, the network of trails around Washington Park’s arboretum, the quiet trails on the campus of Reed College, the riverside paths in Willamette Park and Oaks Bottom, several new trails in the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, the rapidly expanding collection of paths on Gresham Butte, and the Salmon Creek Greenway in Clark County.