Below you’ll find a combination of programs offered by Oregon State Parks and Friends of Tryon Creek. Check back regularly for updates and support future programs. You’ll find camp registration here.
Featured Events
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binoculars, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
Guided Hike - Trees
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Full Moon Hike - Members
Join Friends of Tryon Creek staff for an early evening full moon hike to celebrate seasonal changes and the Tryon community.
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binoculars, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
City Nature Challenge Hike
Join the Friends of Tryon Creek staff for a guided hike through Tryon Creek State Nature Area as we participate in the City Nature Challenge. Spend time outside and collect valuable urban biodiversity data for science, management, and conservation! Meet at 10 am at the Nature Center for this hike. We’ll be helping folks navigate the iNaturalist app to record our findings.
The City Nature Challenge is a community-science event to observe and document as many plants and wildlife as possible in a 4-day period using iNaturalist. People participate from around the world, and this year is our fourth year participating!
Join the iNaturalist page here.
If you aren't able to make it to the scheduled guided hike, observations can still be counted for the challenge between the 26th and 29th of April.
Guided Hike - Ask a Ranger
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Indigenous Culture Day
A free, all-ages event offers a chance to listen and learn from Indigenous educators…
Guided Hike-Trilliums
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Guided Hike - Fish
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Full Moon BIPOC Hike
Join Friends of Tryon Creek staff for an early evening full moon hike to celebrate seasonal changes and the Tryon community.
Guided Hike - Ask a Ranger
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Guided Hike - Woodpeckers
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binoculars, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
Trillium Festival Member Event
Welcome back Spring! The Annual Trillium Festival at Tryon Creek State Natural Area is an educational event for the whole community that celebrates the season of renewal in the forest and beyond.
This popular spring event looks a bit different this year, with the construction of the new education pavilion underway this year’s event will take place over two days. Starting with a special donor appreciation social and plant sale on Friday evening, followed by a public event and plant sale on Saturday.
Our member social event inside the Nature Center will include:
Appetizers and beverages
Native Plant Sale with Bosky Dell
“Ask a Landscaper” with event sponsor Blessings Landscaping
Mini Habitat living centerpieces demonstration with Poppy & Finch, bring your own container (see details below)
Enter to win awesome Door Prizes!
Join us or drop off your little ones in the classroom for:
Hands-on native seed ball-making
Springtime nature craft
Invitations will be sent to current members via email. Not a member yet? Join today.
Thank you to this year’s Trillium Festival Sponsors:
Poppy & Finch is returning again with pop-up living botanical creation or planting service inspired by the beauty & purpose of native plants to help heal our connection with nature ecologically.
She will be offering her service in the Nature Center. 15% of sales & planting services to Friends of Tryon Creek.
1. Bring your own container (with drainage holes preferably) or purchase from my collection (options available $18-$40)
2. Purchase a plant from Bosky Dell
3. Consult for style options
4. Pay and wait for 15-20 minutes or walk around the beautiful park
5. Pick up and you’ll go home with one-of-a-kind living centerpiece for your outdoor space
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binoculars, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
Guided Hike - Owls of Tryon Creek
Morning guided hike highlighting owls of Tryon Creek…
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binocular, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
Guided Hike-Trilliums
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Bird Walks
Join Park Ranger, Rhett, for a morning of gentle hiking and bird identification. Walks will start at 8:15am and last up to two hours. Some routes and trails will involve hiking on moderately steep and muddy terrain. Bring your hot coffee and binocular, and plan to dive into the quiet intricacies of birding in the forest.
Meet at 8:15am in front of the Nature Center. We hope to see you there!
Guided Hike
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Guided Hike
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Watershed Wide Event
Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 15th Annual Watershed Wide Event
Join us in supporting the unique urban Tryon Creek watershed by volunteering to remove invasive plant species and plant native plants for Tryon Creek Watershed Council’s 15th Annual Watershed Wide Event on Saturday, March 9, 2023 from 9:00am – 12pm!
This is TCWC’s largest annual volunteer event! Join us afterwards for a group celebration with pizza – this is a fun chance to see and hear what all happened across the watershed and who with. The pizza party location will be a 2-9 minute drive from sites.
Sign up here – we will follow up with you with more information closer to the date!
Volunteer event locations (more information will be sent closer to the date):
– Tryon Creek State Natural Area
– Marshall Park
– Jackson Middle School
– Boonesferry Terrace Greenspace, near Riverdale High School
– LOUCC (Lake Oswego United Church of Christ)
– with Oswego Lake Watershed Council (LOHS and/or Mountain Park HOA, tbd!)
– Lewis & Clark College
Note: Flexible volunteers are *super* helpful! Being able to send volunteers to the sites that need more people allows us to make similar impacts across all sites throughout the watershed. Thank you!
If you’d like to help out somehow other than hands-on weeding & planting (photography? coffee runs?) please reach out (alexis@tryoncreek.org).
FULL - David Lewis: Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley
Indigenous author book event..
Full Moon Members Hike
Join Friends of Tryon Creek staff for an early evening full moon hike.
FULL Love the Land: Biochar Workshop
Benefits of using biochar to restore soil and promote plant health…
Guided Hike - History of Tryon Creek
Join Oregon State Park Rangers and volunteer Naturalists to venture out with a park guide for a free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. Topics will vary from week to week, and will be geared for ages 5 through adult, but all ages are welcome. Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.
Nature Educator Training
Learn more about the environmental field, cultural implementation and working with youth.
Guided Hike - Ask a Ranger.
Discover the Forest with a Park Ranger– This hike has no set topic, we’ll explore various topics from flora and fauna, to weather and trail conditions.
This hike has a set route: Old Main Trail to Big Fir Trail to Center Trail, to Maple Ridge Trail. Access Recreation has an excellent description of this route for those wondering about the accessibility of this hike: https://www.accesstrails.org/overview/tryon-creek/
Parents must accompany kids on all hikes. No registration needed, meet in front of the Nature Center at 10am.