May 6, 2024 Walk Across Eugene Oregon 

Photographed by jimmyinspazZz

When walking over Ferry Street Bridge facing West a person can see the Valley River Center Bridge far off in the distance.  Traveling north over the Ferry Street Bridge immediately taking a right onto the Ruth Bascom Riverbank trail. 

 Westward passes Skinners Butte to the left, followed by an annoying playground full of screaming germs.   There is the option to go East toward the University of Oregon and Autzen Stadium/Cuthbert Amphitheatre.  

There are many paths off of the main trail that go into the Whitaker neighborhood.  Often I take this route to go to a dispensary and then meet back up with the trail at the end of North Polk Street.  Around a mile from leaving the bridge is the Owen Rose Garden.

  All the while the river is to the right of the flowing as steady as the smorgasburg of bicyclists, skateboarders, shelter-challenged street folks, strollers being pushed by walkers, joggers, junkies, the occasional rollerblader or rare unicycler usually it's a posse of unicyclists (once they were naked) going toward West Eugene with the downtown bound or university crowd flowing the opposite direction. 

Around 1.75 miles past the Rose garden is the Valley River Center Bridge which goes to the mall and the bird sanctuary. 

When crossing the view to the west is beautiful but looking to the east far in the distance would be the Ferry Street Bridge. 

Before crossing yet one more Bridge with bright neon red lights going over the Beltline Highway.  

A great location for viewing clouds on a clear day in the summer.

Looping back around to my house in North Eugene after blissing out in bird paradise.