Springwater Corridor

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:59:59 -800

For the first time ever, I rode my bike to work, and even on the train. That's
not a big accomplishment, snce I didn't buy the bike until Thursday. After work
on Friday, however, I had a few hours before the sun would go down and I decided
that I might as well spend it exploring the bike paths in Portland. Getting
off the MAX in downtown, I rode out to OMSI and decided to follow the newly
finished Springwater Willamette Corridor as far as it went. The river portion
of the corridor follows some train tracks upriver from Portland past Ross
Island, the Oak Park amusement park, under Sellwood Bridge and finally into
Sellwood itself. The distance from OMSI to Sellwood, interestingly enough, is
only about four miles. Having driven out that way some months ago, I'd thought
that it was much much farther.