Hillsboro Trail Bridges
ProposedBridge and crossing projects needed to complete trail gaps along creek corridors through Hillsboro, including disconnected Rock Creek Trail segments at Noble Woods and Rood Bridge Park.
Agency: City of Hillsboro / Washington County / THPRD
Hillsboro’s trail network runs along creek greenways, but key crossings are missing, leaving trail segments disconnected. Completing these bridges would join existing segments into continuous routes and extend access across the city.
Why It Matters
Connected trail corridors are rare in Hillsboro. Without bridges at creek crossings, trail segments dead-end at water, pushing people back onto arterial roads. Each crossing completed multiplies the usable trail on both sides of it.
Current Status
The Rock Creek Trail extension and associated crossings are in the long-range planning stage. No funded construction timeline has been established for the southern extension segments. Hillsboro Parks & Recreation and Washington County are the primary agencies.
Rock Creek Trail — Southern Extension
The Rock Creek Trail currently runs 3.1 miles from Rock Creek Boulevard (north of US-26) south to NW Wilkins Street, with a short on-street connection continuing to a separate paved segment through Orenco Woods Nature Park. Two more sections — at Noble Woods Park and Rood Bridge Park — are planned but not yet connected to the rest of the trail. Closing those gaps requires several new bridge crossings of Rock Creek along the corridor.
Once complete, the full corridor would stretch about 8 miles from north of US-26 to Rood Bridge Park on the Tualatin River — a continuous greenway through the heart of Hillsboro’s eastern neighborhoods.
Rood Bridge Park and the Tualatin River Connection
Rood Bridge Park sits at the south end of the planned Rock Creek Trail extension, at the Tualatin River. A crossing here would tie the Rock Creek corridor into the broader regional trail network and the Tualatin River Regional Water Trail.
Other Creek Corridors
Hillsboro has additional creek corridors — including Dairy Creek — where trail planning and crossing gaps exist. Specific projects and timelines for these crossings are still being developed.
Get Involved
- Hillsboro City Council controls parks and transportation capital budgets
- Washington County Land Use & Transportation manages county-owned trail corridors
- THPRD may partner on segments connecting to regional trails
- See Get Involved for how to participate in planning processes
- See Report Infrastructure Issues to report hazards on existing segments
Resources
- Rock Creek Trail — City of Hillsboro
- Rood Bridge Park — City of Hillsboro
- City of Hillsboro Parks Planning
- Washington County Transportation
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