Apache Bluff Wetland

Apache Bluff wetland is seasonally flooded by the Tualatin River in winter and becomes partially or totally dry in the summer months.  It is part of a larger greenway made up of Cook Park (Tigard), Tualatin Community Park, Durham City Park and the Tualatin Country Club.

Waterfowl include Canada geese, mallards, wood duck, hooded merganser, bufflehead and wigeon. Other birds recorded at this site are Great blue heron, green heron, bittern, snipe, killdeer, bewick's wren, redwing blackbird and several species of swallows. The wetland contains dense brush and remnant apple trees from an old farmstead which support deer, raccoon, and beaver.

Restoration and Enhancements

Using funds from DSL, ponds were excavated and an island was created in the center of the wetland.  Wetland plants were added along the west side after the excavation was completed.  An Eagle Scout project built two foot bridges and a trail.

Trail Access

Two trails provide access to the marsh.  One trail leads to the left (west) along the open water portion of the marsh.  The other goes right (south) from the lower end of the pan-handle access trail. The south pathway which skirts the scrub-shrub wetland is very muddy after wet winters.  The Apache Bluff neighborhood flanks the wetland on the south bluff above the marsh.

How to Get There

Take I-5 south to Tualatin exit #289. Turn right on Nyberg Road (becomes Tualatin-Sherwood Road). Follow Tualatin-Sherwood Rd to 90^th Avenue. Turn right on 90^th to Tualatin Road (T-intersection at Tualatin Country Club). Turn left to Cheyenne Way, turn right on Cheyenne Way. Park at the end of Cheyenne and walk to the right down slope to the wetland.

Public Transit

Closest Trimet routes are 37 & 38 to Tualatin-Sherwood Road and Martinazzi Street in downtown Tualatin. Walk west on Tualatin-Sherwood to 90^th Avenue.

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