From Murray Blvd, turn west on Millikan Way, which becomes SW Millikan Blvd. The entrance to the park and Visitor’s Center is about ¾ mile from Murray Blvd.
I felt a little run-down last weekend but felt I needed to get in at least one hike so we did our local Nature Park Hike. It was a fairly good fall day although it was a little cold and rainy. But what can we expect for the Pacific Northwest.
The Tualatin Hills Nature Park is a 220-acre wildlife reserve in Beaverton, Oregon. There are both evergreen and deciduous forests, creeks, wetlands, ponds and meadows. There are approximately 5 miles of trails. About 1.5 miles are paved, the rest are well maintained soft surface trails.
The oak trees had mostly lost their leaves and you could see all the oak apples. Oak apples are hard galls that are created when certain wasps inject a chemical into the leaf bud after the female wasp lays a single egg. Below is a picture of one from google images.
We did see many catepillars along the trail but other than that it was mostly quiet in the park.
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