See, learn about—and even touch—some genuine treasures of the Ice Age, including fossil bones and wandering boulders.
Tualatin Community Park
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!
Tualatin Public Library
Learn about the remarkable discovery and excavation of a creature that lay buried for over 13,000 years
Visitor Information Center
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.
Tualatin Commons
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.
Mastodon dig site
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.
Sherwood/Lake Oswego Fault
Floods of rock shape floods of water.
Atfalati Ridge
From this spot, you can see evidence of the power of the ice age floods as carvers and as builders of the landscape.
Nyberg Creek Greenway
From here you can look out over a wetland that was shaped by raging floodwaters—and was the grave of at least one mastodon.
Tualatin River bend
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.
Nyberg Rivers Shopping Center
Rediscover your sense of wonder by visiting this nine-foot tall bronze sculpture of a juvenile mastodon.
Cabela's Ice Cave
Take a step back in time and explore a cave and see bones from Ice Age megafauna, including bison, mastodon, mammoth, and giant sloths.