Field Trips and Activities

The Institute cooperates with the Audubon Society of Portland’s Urban Conservation program in offering numerous field trips throughout the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region through the year. The Wild in the City field tours feature bicycle, kayak and canoe, and walking tours of parks and Greenspaces.

Bicycling and Birding at Smith and Bybee Lakes

Bird Watching at Kelley Point Park

Birding the Holgate Channel, Ross Island

Kayaking the Willamette Narrow

Paddling Holgate Channel at Ross Island

Urban Park tour at Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District

"While there are many things, both small and great, which may contribute to the beauty of a great city, unquestionably one of the greatest is a comprehensive system of parks and parkways."

-- John Charles Olmsted, 1903 Report to Portland Park Board