![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, drop down the gully past an old cistern, make a traverse, rise up the slope, and then begin dropping down a ridge line on a sometimes braided trail, getting glimpses of Fallen Leaf Lake through the trees. Keep winding up, and then make a traverse before heading up a gully. Switchback three more times in a mixed forest of Douglas-fir, cedar, hemlock, and maple with an understory of sword fern and Oregon grape. Reach a junction at a large maple tree: to do a winding loop up the slope past larger trees, make a left here.Ī few yards later, go right up the slope, and switchback onto an old road bed at a large Douglas-fir. Just before a softball field, go right and switchback down to a bottomland of mossy big-leaf maples and blackberry vines. Continue up the slope, keeping left at junctions. The woods here are choked with ivy and tall holly bushes. At a junction keep left, and then go right at the next junction. There is a confusing mix of trails in the forest here, many of them designed for mountain bikers. Past the winter gate, a trail leads left at a pet waste dispenser. Continue towards the lakeshore, and then turn left back past the picnic shelter and across the main parking area. Return to find a trail that takes you up over the low ridge and across a games field with picnic tables. Reach slough-like Fallen Leaf Creek, which connects Fallen Leaf Lake with Lacamas Lake. Now that the area is a public park, the name has been changed to invoke more positive connotations, and a trail system, including a winding tangle of mountain bike trails, has been developed.įrom the winter parking area, take the footpath leading north along a low ivy ridge under a canopy of Douglas-fir. It is unclear whether it was these mysterious circumstances or that fact that there was a cemetery on site which gave the lake its name. ![]() According to local legend, some of the drowning victims’ bodies were never recovered. As a recreational site, Dead Lake had been morbidly famous for an unknown number of drownings, with claims that the aquatic plants had tangled swimmers and dragged them down into the unmeasured depths. In that year, however, the graves were exhumed and their contents transported to the Camas Cemetery. The space had been used as a park exclusively for Georgia-Pacific employees and, prior to 1984, part of the area had been the site of the Dead Lake/Camas Catholic Cemetery. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.In 2011, the City of Camas purchased the 55 acres surrounding Dead Lake, now renamed Fallen Leaf Lake, from the Georgia-Pacific Corporation. ![]() If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap Park Street Gardens - fallen leaf field - pathĮlliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom The park is not used often because of its distance from the city centre's main bustling areas however the council insisted on its regeneration in 2000 which saw the construction of new railings and walls and installment of benches.įor some reason Pevsner calls it the St Martin's extension churchyard.Ī number 50 bus passes the gardens. Proposals have seen the introduction of water to the park however queries from the public over the tombstones has been raised. This park, to be built on the front car park of Millennium Point, will be connected to Park Street Gardens and as a result, PSG will be developed. Recently, plans to create the first park within the city centre for 100 years were released. Some of the burial stones from graves and tombs remain in the park linking it to its religious past. In Victorian times this park would be twice as big and be connected to the church yard of St Bartholomew Church which was demolished at the creation of Masshouse Circus in the 1960s. Deer was hunted in this vast park by the monarchy however the land was systematically sold to landowners which was developed expanding the city. It dates back to an old game area used by royalty. Don't know if there are any bodies burried here anymore though. There are grave stones from a former church yard here. Looks nice with the fallen leaves all over the grass. In Eastside, these are the Park Street Gardens. Description Park Street Gardens - fallen leaf field - path (5132329804).jpg ![]()
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