This weekend marked the first day of 2020 volunteer trail work at Gateway Green. With limited capacity for volunteers due to COVID safety restrictions, slots filled up quickly. The crews focused on finish work on the new gravity-fed lines, but lacking a vibrating plate compactor, (two or more would have been ideal) the volunteers were […]
Gateway Green Build Journal
Gateway Green is one of Portland’s newest park acquisitions - 25 acres of unused open space to be developed into a world-class recreation destination, including a bike park with single track trails, dirt jump lines, skills areas and a cyclocross course. Located in East Portland, you can learn more about the Gateway Green Project and the Dirt Lab at www.gatewaygreenpdx.org
To find it: Gateway Green is not accessible by car, as it is surrounded by freeways. To access the park, you enter via the I-205 Bike Path via the Gateway Transit Center (you have to cross through the train stop, which can be confusing for first time visitors) or Maywood Park to the North.
Gateway Green Phase II Construction Update
Gateway Green, Portland’s first real attempt at a bike park, has been closed for several months now with phase two construction currently ongoing. With the trails closed, the small bit of sanctioned trail in the city is almost non-existent. Though work paused briefly due to the ongoing pandemic, construction has resumed and the new iteration […]
2018 Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day at Gateway Green
This Saturday Gateway Green, AKA the bike park down the street, was overrun by hundreds of kids on bikes. Or that’s what it would look like to the casual observer. If you’d look a bit closer though, you’d realize you were looking at the future of Portland cycling. The event? Take a Kid Mountain Biking […]
Gateway Green Bike Park, DirtLab Evolution – a Trail Building Story
The Gateway Green Bike Park and our efforts with the DirtLab Evolution project received a nice shout out in the bike issue of the Willamette Week (a local paper) recently thanks to an op-ed contribution penned by local ripper and pro level rider Spencer Burback. If you’re a regular at the park, you may recognize […]
Gateway Green Build Sessions: Linda’s Line Trail Work (UPDATED)
When it comes to Gateway Green trail enhancement projects, one of the areas inquired about the most is Linda’s Line. Linda’s Line, AKA the single track route down the grass covered hillside at Gateway Green, starts just inside the south gate and sweeps back and forth across the hillside. Initially imagined as a climbing trail, […]
Gateway Green DirtLab Evolution: Toe Line Pump Track Trail
This weekend’s trail work at Gateway Green took a leap forward this week as volunteers answered the call to action. Continuing the work began last weekend, (by Chris Rotivik and myself) we continued our focus on the remodel of the Toe Line Trail. For those unfamiliar, the Toe Line runs along the hillside and features […]
Enhancing the Experience: the Cliff Trail at Gateway Green
What if we could have a trail system like Sandy Ridge within Portland city limits? Hopefully some day we’ll have a quality urban trail experience that doesn’t require two hours of driving (it’s an hour there, another one back) to reach. Until then, why not make the most of what we have? Last year we […]
Portland’s First Bikepark Opens: the Gathering at Gateway Green
The past weekend marked a significant milestone in the history of Portland cycling. After years of planning and development, the Dirt Lab at Gateway Green was opened to the public in an event titled the “Gathering at Gateway Green.” The day had hundreds (if not thousands – we’ll update this post when we receive an […]
Gateway Green Build Journal: Counting Down to the Gathering at Gateway Green (UPDATED)
We’re finally coming into the final stretch on phase one of the Dirt Lab at Gateway Green, with work on the bike park and trails resuming after a painfully long stretch of inactivity on the site. The official opening is June 24th, which is just a few short weeks away! Volunteers have been gathering on […]
How Do I Get To Gateway Green?
Having trouble finding and locating Gateway Green? Enough people have written in asking this that I figured I’d perform a public service and mock up a quick diagram on the best place to park. We of course recommend taking public transit as it drops you right off at the site. You’ll exit the Max Train […]
Gateway Green Build Journal Week 18: The Big Dig
Saturday’s Big Dig Day at Gateway Green had 140 volunteers showing up to give their time to help create single track trails in Portland, Oregon. While a significant amount of labor was performed, the focus of the event was about providing the opportunity to invest sweat equity into what will become for many of us, a second […]
The Willamette Week, Gateway Green and the Oregon Public Use of Lands Act
The Willamette Week published an article on Wednesday that specifically singled out Portland’s first public bike park, Gateway Green as being threatened by a loophole in Oregon law. Titled “Portland’s First Mountain-Bike Park Could Be Crippled by a Court Decision” it’s gone viral amongst local riders this week, concerned with the status of the park. The topic of the […]