Fanno Creek Greenway Trail and McMenamins Greenway Pub

Mode: Urban Hike
Start and Finish: Tualatin Hills Garden Home Recreation Center
Route: Out and back.
Distance: 10.9 miles

Fanno Creek Greenway Trail

Level paved trail that mostly meanders through local neighborhoods  in a narrow greenway along Fanno Creek and its surrounding wetlands. Short connecting walks along roads and an overpass crossing OR217 at Denny Road and a few busy street crossings along the way. Saw a Great Blue Heron fishing in a pond behind an industrial park on Allen Blvd. The trail has lots of walkers, runners and bikers on some segments and is very quiet in others. The Greenway Trail features a Frisbee golf course that is an easy walk from the pub offering another potential pub outing.

McMenamin's Greenway Pub

This Pub is a complete sleeper. Located in a strip mall off a busy suburban highway, I was completely stunned when I walked through the doors. It is surprisingly large, with a warm wood-paneled feel typical of a McMenamin's establishment. The Pub has a large gameroom with two large billiard tables and two large shuffleboard tables.

The most striking thing about the Greenway Pub, however, are its two spectacular saltwater aquariums. These create an inviting peaceful feel to the booths surrounding them and will definitely be a reason to return to this location.

I had the pulled pork sliders and a pint of Red Riser IRA, the recently released seasonal that is absolutely delicious. This is one of McMenamin's best brews in my opinion.

When I got my Passport stamped, the friendly server was surprised to hear that I had never been there before. He noted that it was deceiving from the outside and I offered that I had driven by thousands of times but never stopped in. He then told me an interesting part of McMenamin history. The Greenway, fortuitously the second stop on my adventure, was the second pub that the McMenamin's opened. When the pub opened in 1983, the area was still largely undeveloped and the pub was a hangout for bikers (not the pedal kind). As the neighborhood grew up around it, the pub clientele changed similar to the transformation of Raleigh Hills Pub, and perhaps a trend throughout the growing and evolving McMenamin kingdom.