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first planted in 1951 by area
residents with the help of
parks department. The loca
tion was considered ideal
because of the shade provided
by trees and the hilltop
setting.
Although thousands of
visitors flock to Hendricks
Park every year, the most fre
quently used park in Eugene
is Skinner Butte Park. Located
on the south bank of the
Willamette River in close pro
ximity to downtown, the
92-acre park offers baseball
fields, playground equip
ment. picnic tables and a
replica of Eugene Skinner's
log cabin.
Skinner built his original
cabin in 1846 with the help of
one other person. It contained
a single room and its exact
location is believed to be
under an apartment house
today.
The replica was built in
1970 with the help of 1,000
hours of donated labor. At the
time the Lane County
Historical Society called it "a
memorial to our pioneer
heritage and to those grand
men and women who braved
the hardships of early settle
ment to make today
possible."
The park is named after the
butte that rises up from the
river's edge. Roads lead to the
top. providing a view of the
city looking south. Them also
are a few hiking trails blazed
up and down the butte.
The butte also attracts rock
climbers, who scale up and
down a 40-foot rock cliff on
the west side. The rock col
umns are similar in style to
the famed "Devil’s Postpiles"
found in the California Sierra
Nevadas.
Before it became a park in
1914. the Skinner Butte area
was the site of various early
day business enterprises, in
cluding a sawmill, an ex
celsior plant and a gravel
plant.
Five miles to the south of
Skinner Butte is "the other
butte," Spencer Butte Reach
ed by traveling along South
Willamette Street two miles
MW Photo
Rafting down the Willamette River near Alton Baker
Park and the Ferry Street Bridge is a popular recrea
tional activity.
south of the city limits, the
park encases 300 acres of
forest. Hiking trails climb the
2,065-foot butte, providing
from the summit a tremen
dous view of the Coast Range,
the Cascade Mountains and
the South Willamette Valley.
Native Americans used to
call the butte ‘’Cham-o-tee,"
meaning rattlesnake moun
tain However, the origin of
the butte's name never has
been established One version
states that a young
Englishman by the name of
Spencer, who was traveling
through the area with a Hud
son's Hay Company party,
went hunting one day and
climbed the summit When he
failed to return a search party
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