Minto-Brown Island Park encompasses 1,200 acres of lush, open, and wooded terrain. This makes Minto-Brown Island Park not just the largest park in Salem but also larger than New York City's Central Park. There is a 30-acre off-leash dog area with lots of space for your dog to wander, play, and socialize with other dogs. This park is also a wildlife and waterfowl sanctuary, which you can see from the observation platforms along the sloughs. Many diverse wetland wildlife, including blue herons, ospreys, squirrels, and rabbits, call this area home. Walk, run, or bike any of the nine loops' 29 miles of path. Riverfront Park is also accessible via the Peter Courtney Minto Island Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge. The Union Street Railroad Bridge connects the riverfront area to the Wallace Marine area.
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MINTO-BROWN ISLAND PARK REVIEWS
Beautiful park lots of space. There’s plenty of trails to explore! You’re going to love it! Bonus huge dog park, your dog is going to love for it! Pick nick tables and barbecue grill!
Great place to see the great outdoors! Only did 7 miles but could do more if I had the time. Great place to bring the pooch but must follow leash laws
Great park to bring friends family and have a good playful time hiking biking, fun time for the kids and all or get some nature time alone you get it here
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Joryville Park is a natural, wooded region with a brook trickling through it near the park's base. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jory, area pioneers, donated the land for a park to the South Salem Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s. The total length of the trail is 1.8 miles. The elevation gain of the trail is 259 feet. The trail is a loop type. The time taken to complete the total trial is approximately 47 minutes. The land was then deeded to Marion County by the Chamber after the SSCC was dissolved. A horse-riding arena at the entrance was built with the help of 4-H members. Work relief workers were used to build equestrian and pedestrian routes from the bottom to the top of the hill. With the help of Federal Land and Water money, the roads through the park and the parking space at the top of the hill near the shelter building surfaced with tarmac.
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JORYVILLE PARK REVIEWS
We love it here at Joryville…where it’s a walk in the park, down the path then over the bridge, a hopscotch along the log round lilypad trail, scale the wall of wilderness as you grab ahold of an exposed tree root or two as we foot race our way to the trail on top of the hill on the other side of the park and come out to the asphalt parking area and descend the steep hill to make it full circle back to where yawls started the journey.
Found this great park a few years ago and it was closed. So I actually got to see it today and it was beautiful. Dog friendly and had a picnic area and even a rest room. My favorite was all the walking/hiking trails.
Favorite mini hike park for my family. Beautiful and fun. Has a paved path and many small trails. Some small water features to look as well
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The Croisan Scenic Trail and Skyline Trail are two wooded "pocket trails" hidden inside South Salem neighborhoods. The total length of the trail is 1.5 miles. The elevation gain of the trail is 278 feet. The trail is out and back type. The time taken to complete the total trial is approximately 43 minutes. Each is about a mile long, including branches and spurs, and the two are connected by a few blocks on quiet suburban streets. Joggers, dog walkers, bird watchers, hikers, and the occasional mountain biker or bike commuter use these routes, which provide easy access to neighboring neighborhoods. The Skyline Trail is located within Skyline Park, an otherwise undeveloped City Park directly adjacent to Sprague High School, and the Croisan Scenic Trail follows the undeveloped right of way of Croisan Scenic Way, beginning near Schirle School and ends near Nelson City Park on Croisan Creek Road.
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CROISAN CREEK & SKYLINE TRAIL REVIEWS
Absolutely loved this trail. Very peaceful, cute little streams, adorable little bridge. The scenery is very much so woodsy. Perfect place to take your dog for a walk. It's got some trails that split off a little and is a pretty decent walk for a low key hike.
I enjoyed this well kept trail. Paved at the mouth, this trail has many forks that weave between folks backyards. A lot of deer in this area of town, we saw a few does and calves just feet away.
This is a nice urban trail. Road noise is a little high. But it is in the city. Easily walked. Kid friendly. I've even seen deer on this trail.
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