Trillium Trail
One of the park's steepest quarter-miles — a lung-buster to the Wildwood, wearing a soft wildflower name.
Route color = grade gentle · 0%steep · 28%+
Segments
On this trailBefore you go
Before you go
Save it for drier stretches. Like all the park’s dirt trails it goes greasy in the wet season, and a grade this sharp is no place to test your footing in mud. It’s a foot-only trail, and daylight only — there’s nothing to see up here after dark but your own effort.
For the full picture of the corridor it feeds off, see Springville Road and the neighboring side trails; from the bottom, the Wildwood carries you on a level contour in either direction, which is what turns this steep little rung into part of a real loop.
Getting there
One way · from No trailhead of its own
- Start
- No trailhead of its own — reached from the Springville Road Trailhead cluster on the park's upper western slope, alongside the Hardesty and Ridge trails
- Orientation
- High on the park's western rim off NW Skyline Blvd, in the pocket of pedestrian-only side trails that hang off the Springville Road corridor
- Parking
- No parking of its own; the nearest is the small free lot at the Springville Road Trailhead — rarely full, but with a real break-in reputation, so take your valuables with you
- Ends at
- Drops to the Wildwood Trail near milepost 18½. There's no lot at the bottom; on foot you reverse it back up, or continue on the Wildwood to loop back toward Springville
- Transit
- No transit reaches it; the upper access is the Springville Road Trailhead, best reached by car
- Accessibility
- Not accessible — a short, very steep natural-surface pitch with no paved section and no facilities at either end
- Dogs
- leashed
- Best
- spring for the trilliums; a daytime outing — the tread turns greasy in the wet season
Additional resources
- Portland Parks & Recreation — Forest Park trails map (PDF)Official map: the foot-only side trails off Springville and how they meet the Wildwood.