Skinners Butte

Eugene has many great resources for families. One is a great parks system. Tonight we met friends at Skinners Butte Park for dinner and a hike up the butte. Skinners Butte Park was originally a Civilian Conservation Corp (3C's) camp that performed work in Lane County back in the late 1930's. The members of the Corp created most of the infrastructure of the park by planting trees, building rock walls,  picnic benches and this out of place rock chimney. We hiked up to the butte overlook to take in the view of Eugene.
We spent some time enjoying the butte, its views and history then took a different route back down going past the Skinner's Butte Columns. The columns were swarming with climbers today and we took a few extra minutes to watch the climbers make their ascents. Then we headed back over to Riverplay for dinner and a chance for the kids to exert some more energy in the playground.