New Hikes Near Eugene

Author and hiking guru William L. Sullivan takes us on a slide show tour of new and changed trails he discovered near Eugene while updating his "100 Hikes" guidebooks for Oregon. We’ll visit a viewpoint in the Thurston Hills above Springfield, a weird water tower atop Eugene’s Wild Iris Ridge, and a restored trail to a fire lookout that didn’t burn in the recent Fall Creek fire. We’ll also see how the Eugene Parks Foundation is working to fill gaps in the Ridgeline Trail in the hopes of completing a 40-mile loop around Eugene. As always, Sullivan spices his talk with anecdotes about history, wildflowers, and geology along the way.

Sullivan is the author of 23 books about history, mystery, and adventure. Among his latest are “Exploring Oregon’s History” and “The Ship in the Woods,” a historical novel about the Swedish Vikings in Russia. His journal of a 1000-mile hike across Oregon, "Listening for Coyote," was chosen by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission as one of Oregon's 100 most significant books.