New Section of the South Waterfront Greenway Path Opens

The South Waterfront Greenway Path has been a long-term project which we've tracked since 2012.  

For a little history, this dates back to city discussion in 2012, photos of the construction in 2015, and the Greenway grand opening in 2015.

A new section of the Greenway Path opened recently, and is finally connecting the section of path opened in 2015 with the path at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

Sharing this piece and some great photos from Jonathan Maus of BikePortland:

https://bikeportland.org/2023/12/20/new-piece-of-south-waterfront-greenway-path-now-open-382660

Photo from BikePortland.org

City of Portland info: South Waterfront Greenway 

Cyclists Take Caution on Waterfront Trail

6/26 UPDATE: The offending barricade (below) has been moved out of the way since my original post.

6/19: This is just a heads-up to those of you who bike the waterfront trail between South Watefront and Sellwood Bridge.  I witnessed a bike wreck last weekend at the curve in the trail just around the corner from Aqua Riva. The cyclist took a left into the shortcut (which has been open and used as a shortcut for years) and hit a new concrete barrier, shown in the photo below:

Watch out for concrete barrier on the left!

(Note: strange blur on this image is where I digitally removed a bystander from the photo.)

The cyclist and his trailer (with kid inside) hit the pavement, trailer toppled over, etc. Two other family members narrowly avoided a pile-up. Fortunately, I don't think anyone was hurt beyond scrapes and bruises.

New concrete barrier from other direction.

Many people take the cut-through due to very poor trail conditions (BUMPS) on the regular trail. See below:

Terrible bumps, just past new asphalt

Perhaps this section of trail is next on the list for repaving? Nicely repaved asphalt is just up ahead:

Newly paved trail behind the (still under exterior repairs?) Willamette Wharf Office Bldg

A warning sign would be helpful and could help prevent more serious accidents.  

Happy Mothers' Day

...and a gosling update. These little guys have grown quite a bit in the last 2 weeks!

Waterfront trail is flooded

I guess I have not been ventured south of the South Waterfront in a week or so. About 1.26 miles into my run yesterday (testing out the Runkeeper App*), I ran into this:

No signs, no warnings, no "word on the street" from neighbors - just an impasse between runner and river, as the Willamette eventually took over the entire path.

Consider this a friendly heads-up!

*As for Runkeeper for Android, it worked well for a trial run. I didn't require an account setup, so I could just turn it on and go. I chose the no-coaching option. It gives real-time current pace (min/mi), as well as average pace. Surprisingly, I liked the audio updates. Best of all, it allows for opening the camera and snapping photos from within the app.