Join The Celebration of Gateway Green’s Completion, October 5

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Portland Parks & Recreation and partners welcome all to celebrate the completion of Gateway Green's final improvements and enjoy Take Your Kid Mountain Biking Day, presented by NW Trail Alliance.

(Portland, OR)

Join Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) on Saturday, October 5, 2024, to celebrate the completion of Gateway Green'sfinal improvements and enjoy Take Your Kid Mountain Biking Day, presented by NW Trail Alliance!

Two young people and an adult wearing summer clothes and helmets ride the bicycle pump track at Gateway Green during a recent Take Your Kid Mountain Biking Day.

In partnership with the nonprofit Friends of Gateway Green, PP&R acquired the 25 acres of formerly unused land in 2014 and turned it into a unique off-road cycling and hiking destination. Today Gateway Green's soft-surface and paved multi-use trails allow visitors to bike, hike, explore, and connect to the regional trail and cycling network. The Friends of Gateway Green and NW Trail Alliance have been and remain key partners in the park's success.

What: Gateway Green grand reopening celebration in collaboration with the annual NW Trail Alliance's Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day!
Where: Gateway Green

When: Saturday, October 5, 2024,10am to 2pm (Opening ceremony begins at 10)

Fun for all ages:

• Bike skills challenge stations
• Loaner mountain bikes
• Face painting
• Raffle
• Ice cream truck (available for purchase)
• Refreshments
• Fun activities

Access information

• Gateway Green is a car-free park. We encourage you to take public transportation. If you must drive, please park in the west Fred Meyer parking lot across from Gateway Transit Center. There will be directional signs to enter the park from the new TriMet entry bridge.
• ADA grade paths vary between paved and unpaved.
• ASL interpretation during the opening ceremony.
• ADA restrooms available.

Portland Parks & Recreation just completed the final phase of improvements at Gateway Green

There is a new south entrance that leads directly from the TriMetGateway Transit Center onto the new bridge which is accessible by the Red, Green, and Blue lines. The new bridge flows directly into Portland Parks & Recreation's new entry plaza and expanded mountain biking and trail system. This added entry point is ADA grade, increasing the ease of connectivity to the trail system. The new bridge is a dedicated pedestrian/bike bridge for park access and is a product of TriMet's Better Red project that has been using the park for the last three years.

The improvements at Gateway Green also feature two extended "gravity line" trails, each now 80 yards longer, as well as new entry plazas, benches, and wayfinding signage.PP&R repaved the pump track, trails and plantings were refreshed, and new signs are planned for later this year.

A TriMet Max train on the new bridge, on a sunny day. The bridge was recently completed as part of a multiagency partnership during the final construction phase of the popular Gateway Green Park. Located at I-205 and I-84 in Portland.

More About Gateway Green

Gateway Green is a unique, 25-acre off-road cycling and hiking destination. Community partners including Friends of Gateway Green and NW Trail Alliance worked with the City to realize their vision. Together we transformed the property, formerly unused Oregon Department of Transportation land at the confluence of two interstates, into a much-needed, free site for off-road cycling and other outdoor recreation in East Portland.

Gateway Green has family-friendly soft-surface and paved trails for biking and hiking; plus enhanced natural habitat. Visitors can enjoy outdoor fun and connect to the regional trail and cycling network.

The park was developed in phases, with funding from multiple sources - a Metro Nature in Neighborhoods grant in 2014, System Development Charges from several past PP&R commissioners, $1.3 million in cash, and in-kind contributions (public and private) raised by Friends of Gateway Green.

Approximately 26,000 people live within 1 and a half miles of Gateway Green. Metro estimates that 250,000 people pass by Gateway Green annually via the I205 multiuse path.

Gateway Green functions as a regional off-road cycling destination, a site for passive recreation, for reflection, and as a key amenity for East Portland neighborhoods and communities including Maywood Park, Madison South, Montavilla, Parkrose, Parkrose Heights, Sumner, Woodland Park, and Hazelwood. 138,000 or 24% of Portland's population currently reside in East Portland. By 2040, East Portland is projected to grow by 90,000, yet that part of town lacks the same access to parks and green space available in other parts of the city.

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