The trail drops into the forest and follows a creek, and within minutes the city disappears entirely. About a mile in, the stone walls appear through the trees, covered in moss and graffiti, open to the sky, and unlike anything else you will find on a Portland hike.
The structure has a name that does it justice.
The Witch’s Castle started as a city-commissioned restroom and hiker shelter in the 1930s, was abandoned after a 1962 storm, and spent the following decades being slowly reclaimed by one of the largest urban forests in the country…