I want to run on the Nike Campus runnign trail.... where can I park?

There is free street parking on SW Jay St. The trail runs right along there too, so you will be able to hop on it easily. Don't forget about the new Hollister trail across the street too if you want to add on and make a larger loop. Have fun!

Park in the space with the sign that reads: Reserved for Lance Armstrong

You just might be allowed to park on the campus. They have monstrous parking lots far in excess of employees' usual needs. Try asking the guy at the gate if you can park in there to run on the loop. If he allows it, he might even give you directions to a lot close to the loop. Maybe someone else knows for sure.

I have heard that you might be asked to leave the loop trail if you are not wearing Nike shoes.

I live within running distance of there now, but before I moved this close, I parked either in the lot or there are businesses and residential areas around there too. I never went during business hours, however. If you're going in the middle of the day, I think there are actually some visitor spaces in the Nike lot as well.

The berm (bark trail around Nike) is slightly under 2 miles. I like the Hollister trail much more because it is not as spongy or hilly. Hollister is gravel/dirt, shaded with trees and marked every 400m. Each loop is 1.5 miles. I also recommend running in the Tualitan Hills Nature Park, which is very close.

If you're in town this weekend, there is a 5K at the Nike campus:

http://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=22

Take the advice on wearing Nike. Wearing anything else would be like walking around the Ohio State campus with a Michigan shirt.

Lol...it's Beaverton. Park anywhere you want. Also, the campus entrances are such that you can turn left or right to the parking areas before reaching the security areas.

dude just take the Max

You don't have to wear Nike, guys, chillax. I wear my adi Tempos most mornings around campus. "competitive wear-testing" is a reality.

Many people do this every day. And more power to them...

My name is Jay wrote:

Take the advice on wearing Nike. Wearing anything else would be like walking around the Ohio State campus with a Michigan shirt.

Usser wrote:

I plan on wearing Nike shoes and gear.

Good decision. If you wore Asics or Adiddas, they'd sent Galen Rupp to hunt you down and pound your head like a bongo drum.

chewbacca wrote:

dude just take the Max

Air Max

My name is Jay wrote:

Take the advice on wearing Nike. Wearing anything else would be like walking around the Ohio State campus with a Michigan shirt.

Park where you want and wear what you want. Nobody cares. You see all kinds of runners and walkers wearing different brands on the trails and nobody cares. Security scooters roll past me on the "Nike Employee Only" Hollister Trail, and the rent-a-cops wave as I run by wearing my adidas apparel and shoes on my morning run (I live nearby). Go run in Portland on the waterfront, Forest Park, or somewhere interesting.

After business hours, I've had no problems parking in the Nike lots (no one was there to check). Also, although I have felt a little conspicuous wearing my typical mish-mash of Asics, Brooks and Oiselle gear (I don't own any Nike stuff), no one has ever ordered me to leave (I admit, however, that I have fears that some disembodied voice will announce from some hidden loudspeakers - "Hey, YOU! In the Asics! Get off the trail!!) ;-)

In the evening, there seem to be quite a few local residents (non-Nike) using the trail. I've heard from a Nike employer, however, that the Hollister trail is only for Nike employees (although my son's HS team attended the dedication - which doesn't make sense).

For the location, it's a pretty good loop for doing a workout (and at night sometimes the sprinklers go on -- nice in the heat), but Forest Park is way more interesting and more beautiful.

Sovcl wrote:

You don't have to wear Nike, guys, chillax. I wear my adi Tempos most mornings around campus. "competitive wear-testing" is a reality.

I visited Nike campus on business. Dress code was distincly business extremely casual. My contact said if wearing sneakers, they had an implied policy about wearing Nikes. Campus perimenter trail is great (yes TRG, almost too spongy) for tempos because of the undulations.

Nike campus was not just a place of business....it was an actual EXPERIENCE.

And don't forget to run the leif erickson trail. Probably one of the top 5 trails I've ever run on.

Skeptic of it All wrote:And don't forget to run the leif erickson trail. Probably one of the top 5 trails I've ever run on.

Leif Erikson???? you run once a year?

DUde, big chunk gravel is chunks o rock even in the (second growth) trees.

wasn't there some newbie NOP runner 10 yrs ago that broke an ankle on LE?

pdx resident runner 16 years - i'd never disclose best local places to run (the search never ends), but LE ain't e'en close.

Lowell, I understand your reasons for not disclosing the best local runs, what if I say pretty please and I won't tell? I am up there infrequently on business and found that you have some of the best trail runs I have seen outside of my home state of AK. I live on the sandbar known as FL these days and am grateful for any opportunity to run such perfect trails, please be a gem and name a trail for me to hit next week that is within a day trip of Hillsboro. I ran the cap lookout trail yesterday, wow!

Jim

jsorrels wrote:

I understand your reasons for not disclosing the best local runs...

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