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trail  Tualatin Heritage Centrego

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See, learn about—and even touch—some genuine treasures of the Ice Age, including fossil bones and wandering boulders.
 
trail  Tualatin Community Parkgo

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A 27-acre community park offers great recreation opportunities, including a playground full of ice age motifs. You can also see how flood deposits shaped the Tualatin River, and even get a peek at the area where bones of a giant sloth were found!
 
trail  Tualatin Public Librarygo

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Learn about the remarkable discovery and excavation of a creature that lay buried for over 13,000 years
 
trail  Visitor Information Centergo

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The Tualatin Ice Age Trail is just the start of the adventure. At the Visitor Information Center, you’ll find ways to extend your ice age explorations to the greater Willamette Valley, and beyond.
 
trail  Tualatin Commonsgo

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The intersection of Art and the Ice Age: Discover erratic boulders, a playful fountain, and artwork that reflect the power of water—particularly the great floodwaters that surged through this region during the last glacial advance.
 
trail  Mastodon dig sitego

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A remarkable discovery:
You’re standing at the site of one of the most intriguing discoveries in Tualatin History: the place where students excavated the bones of a mastodon.
 
trail  Sherwood/Lake Oswego Faultgo

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Floods of rock shape floods of water.
 
trail  Atfalati Ridgego

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From this spot, you can see evidence of the power of the ice age floods as carvers and as builders of the landscape.
 
trail  Nyberg Creek Greenwaygo

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From here you can look out over a wetland that was shaped by raging floodwaters—and was the grave of at least one mastodon.
 
trail  Tualatin River bendgo

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This section of the Tualatin River reveals the story of its past—you can read it in the curving course of the river, and in the stair-step terraces along the riverbank.
 
trail  Nyberg Rivers Shopping Centergo

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Rediscover your sense of wonder by visiting this nine-foot tall bronze sculpture of a juvenile mastodon.
 
trail  Cabela's Ice Cavego

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Take a step back in time and explore a cave and see bones from Ice Age megafauna, including bison, mastodon, mammoth, and giant sloths.