On Saturday afternoon, August 23, 2008, I attended the Dedication Ceremony for the Interpretive Trail at Fields Bridge Park along the banks of the Tualatin River in West Linn, Oregon. The Missoula Ice Age Interpretive Trail is a project four years and #100,000 in the making. Miniature bronze replica of the Willamette Meteorite and Signboards about the Meteorite and the Missoula Ice Age Floods that scoured most of the Northwest were displayed. The Willamette Meteorite weighed 151 1/2 tons. The Meteorite is believed to have been grounded during one of the larger cataclysmic Missoula Ice Age Floods on a hillside in West Linn. It had floated over 400 miles from Canada on an iceberg. It is the 6th largest meteorite found in the world and the largest found in North America and Canada. The Willamette Meteorite is currently on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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