The small parking area is planted with non-native red maples from eastern North America, but their leaves make an attractive carpet in the fall. There's a little shelter with information about the nature in the park and also some trail brochures: http://www.fmnp.org/images/MNPtrailmapforwebsite.pdfThe trails in the park wind up and around two steep-sided ravines that combine to form Marquam Gulch. Spur trails lead to Broadway and OHSU and a short stretch of the loop also includes Marquam Hill Road. The forest is native Douglas-fir, western hemlock, red-cedar, big-leaf maple, vine maple, and even some Pacific yew. There is also a liberal dose of non-natives - cherry-laurel, ivy, holly, and herb-robert being the most conspicuous.
I amused myself by turning over maple leaves looking for salamanders, but found only one (see below) although I expected to turn up more (I have at least three species in my yard). The maples were a blaze of bright yellow and, surprisingly, there were only a couple of other people on the paths.
