Celebrate National Poetry Month in Oregon

Poetry Along the Columbia River Gorge

Walk-Bike-Roll along the Columbia River Gorge

The Columbia River has many names:

Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu)

This is a Self Directed Pop Up Event

only on April 11 & April 12th (Saturday & Sunday)

Celebrate Poems and Artwork in the grandeur of the Columbia River Gorge.  

 

Bring your own heart and mind on these paved trails and enjoy the panoramas of this unique place.

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The Poetry and Artwork are on two sections of paved Car-Free Historic Columbia River Highway

Section 1: Wyeth to Starvation Creek Trail

Section 2: Hatfield "Twin Tunnels" Trail

These Poems and Artwork are completely accessible for Walking, Rolling, and Cycling.

All forms of Cycling, Walking, Rolling. Skateboards, manual and e-wheelchairs, parents with strollers are all welcomed.

Both trails have Accessible Rest Rooms at both east and west entrance to these two trails.

 

The Poems are spaced along the two trails.

Maps show poems position on trails with approximate distances from both directions.

This is NOT a single long ride or roll or walk. It is more like a string of pearls. Some poems are long and have many stanzas; Some are short. Poems and Artwork ask you to stop, exhale, inhale, look around, imagine your place and footsteps in your own history and the history of so many generations from today to 13,000 years and what binds us all overlapping our unique personhoods.

 

 

GO to Frequent Questions         GO to Maps: how to get to Poems/Art         GO to FAQ: Rent a bike, Weather, & Help

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