Elaine Love

Review of Tualatin River National Wildli...

The off-season(year-round) trail is supposed to be...

The off-season(year-round) trail is supposed to be accessible to all. I was hoping for a long, quiet stroll and was about a quarter to a half mile along, I rounded a corner and found the trail was flooded and impassable to anyone not wearing waterproof boots. There were four other persons on the trail at the same time as me, two were in wheelchairs, and they all seemed as disappointed as me to have to turn back after such a short distance. As it is now the refuge has no entrance fee, but there are signs stating that this will change at some point in the future. If I HAD paid an entrance fee, then found the trail flooded, I would be angry. Also, at this point in the year, our rainfall has been about average. I would understand the trail being flooded if we'd recently had an abnormally high amount of precipitation.

The buildings and bathrooms are clean, accessible, and well maintained... Just wish the trail was. That's the whole reason I was there after all.