Gateway Green is Shaping Up

Gateway Green is a 25-acre parcel of land squished between two freeways. The project began as an effort of local land owners and open space advocates in an effort to catalyze economic growth in outer east Portland and provide a world-class recreation destination.

We talked to Kelly Stoecklein, landscape designer at GreenWorks, about progress at Gateway Green and followed one rider as he tested out the new mix of single track, gravity, and huge jumps.

It's becoming a reality right now thanks to Portland Parks & Recreation, Metro, Friends of Gateway Green, and Northwest Trail Alliance.

GreenWorks designers collaborated with local stakeholders to create a program and vision for Gateway Green that will improve environmental conditions and provide habitat restoration; provide a regional recreational destination for bicycles as Portland’s first bike park, offering single track trails, a bike skills area, gravity area, and a cyclocross course; provide soft surface trails and paved multi-use trails; provide open space and a possible branding opportunity for adjacent Gateway Regional Center and surrounding neighborhoods; and highlight Portland’s evolving sustainable marketplace and express the region’s use of sustainable design solutions.

GreenWorks also prepared plans for the installation of a nature-based play area at Gateway Green that will strengthen a physical connection to the region’s ecology in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Thank you to Matthew Crampton for test riding the trails, and to Raimore Construction, Miller Factors, Sasquatch Trails, PBS Engineering and Environmental Inc., 3J Consulting, Inc., Morgan Holen and Associates, Geotechnics, Environmental Management Systems, Inc., and C2 Recreation.

*** Gateway Green is currently under construction. Please do not go there until it's completed! ***