Wildwood Trail, Portland, Oregon (Winter)

The Wildwood Trail is possibly the most famous of all Portland trails (it even has two young adult books written about it, Wildwood and Under Wildwood, which add a bit more magic to this already magical place. 

We visited a small portion of the end of the Wildwood Trail in December of 2014, near Helvetia and it was very muddy and wet.  

However, there is a an amazing beauty to this 30 mile trail that runs from the Portland Zoo to the farmlands.  Although you can do the trail in one day as this guy did, most people break it up into several sections.   The majority of the trail is not for young kids, and make sure you pack plenty of food and water.