Many people are discovering the joys, and the benefits, of walking.  You learn about your neighborhood, perhaps about other neighborhoods, too.  You meet interesting people. If you walk and talk with others, you find out the latest gossip.  It's healthy.  It's inexpensive.  It's fun. 

We would like to promote more walking by furnishing accurate maps complete with trails, stairs and "demand paths" (those routes that just appear because people use them).  We also provide some notes about points of interest, history, interesting architecture and gardens, and anything else we discover people would like to know about. 

We (Knowledge for Use) are currently assembling several suggestions for loop walks, including many that start at community centers in Southwest Portland.  These are maps and descriptions, suitable for downloading from the Web and printing on your computer's printer. 

A short description of this mapping project is located HERE.

See the routes about the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, 6651 SW Capitol Highway (Vermont St) at SW 25th Ave.

Clicking on the map gives you a map file for printing: they are about 100k, so only the ones you want to print will take up download time.  Clicking on a "description link" gives you a page of descrption you can download and print from your browser.

We will collect other links to Web sites with a similar purpose.  For example:

about.com (General information web site...has walks in Portland)
Lewis and Clark Memorial Discovery Bluff Trail (Inchoate web site)
 

Do you need a little assistance walking...but you really want to get outdoors to get that exercise you know will make you feel great...?  Click here

Let's assemble street maps of the Portland area that are accurate and complete: if it's on the map, it's on the ground; if it's on the ground, it's on the map; if it's not on the ground, . . . etc.    Help us correct the maps.