Lovely Fall walk. Moderate intensity, wear stable footwear, as the path can be slick with leaves or mud. If you dont like dogs, likely not a great choice for you, as there were several with their owners, none leashed. They were VERY well behaved, and not a problem for me, but if you or a dog with you were not prepared, it could be uncomfortable.

Nice park with plenty of shade and well defined trails. You really have to know where youre going, though, because there are so many trail options. We were with friends so we didnt get lost, but it would have been easy to.

Excellent hike from our home & assessible via the Kings Blvd power line. Oak filled savanna hill top with great views of our cascade mtns.

Easy hike to the top of a ridge that allows for great views of the valley. My school age children were able to easily keep up, and there was a good mix of shade and sun.

Chip Ross is one of my all time favorite spots in Corvallis. Amazing view to the town and the valley, some easy/medium trails with benches to rest, and a connection to the university forest. A prefect destination to get away from your busy life and watch the sun set over the coastal mountains.

This is a beautiful hike. The gravel parking lot at the trail head is pretty rough and the trail itself is too. This is not a hike that is easily accessible to strollers or anyone who has trouble with uneven and steep ground. Choose the shorter or longer loop. Beautiful trees along the way and a lovely view at the top. Expect to meet other hikers, dogs, bikers, and horses on this path.

Beautiful park, trails are exceptionally maintained. Bring a map!!! Lots of land out there to explore!

Great place to get some cardio. A bit muddy. Wish there were more trials up there.

Three days dry trail. Good condition and well marked. Great hike.

Its a pretty short walk up to the top. The view is amazing from the top on days with good weather. You can pretty much look down on most of Corvallis! Would definitely recommend!

Excellent place to hike and bike! Many trails. Beautiful scenery, breath taking at the top of a relatively short hike.

Nice trails to hike on! And some pretty views!

Great little park for a short hike!

A great place for a little hike. My dog and I spent about an hour there and saw lots of great birds, including wild turkeys! Bring your binoculars!

Many trail length combinations and options available with nice views. Trail well maintained except for a large amount of dog poop (irresponsible owners) lining the trail on both sides especially near Lester entrance.

Beautiful trails. Amazing vegetation.

One of my favorite places to walk my dog with the absolute best view of the town

Great for a Sunday morning walking! (:

Beautiful views of Corvallis and a lovely place to take your best friend on a hike.

This is a really wonderful place. It was my first time hiking at this place and it was awesome. Must go.

Nice day for a hike. Beautiful views.

Excellent local hiking and biking trail with great views.

Nice short loop close to town. Can get pretty muddy at times.

This trail has it all...open vistas, rolling hills, optional routes, mini waterfalls, moss dripped trees, ferns galore, hiking and mountain biking, and not kidding....someone was playing bagpipes under a rainbow. I half expected fairys to pop out. The parking lot appears flat but will rock you hard so come in at 2 mph. The summit to Dimple Hill is farther that I expected. In fact, I havent made it upon 2 attempts but the cold rain caught me. I truly love this place

Corvallis is truly fortunate to have this open space right in town. Great hikes, can have view of Cascades on a clear day and all of Corvallis on all but the foggiest days.

Beautiful outlook, clean and easy trails. Dog friendly, love it every time!

A nice short loop hike with beautiful views to help you escape for a moment.

Beautiful place for a hike.

Beautiful view from the summit when the weather is clear. The hike is short and pretty easy, which makes it a great place to walk or trail run.

Had a good time with the fam

Its much prettier since they did the oak savanna restoration.

Great views!!multiple trails for hiking,biking and horse back.Easy to moderate

Christmas Eve hike up Dimple Hill. It was a good day as in no real rain but the top was completely fogged in kind or eerie and kind of cool.

Amazing Park! The views here are amazing, and its right in Corvallis!

A great Park to take the dogs, there are a variety of different trails and the dogs love it!

Great place to run

Great trails. I really enjoyed this area.

Great place to have a quick walk

Its not really a park as much as it is a booking area. Good hiking when the ground isnt wet. Otherwise, its quite muddy, in sure of the obvious efforts to drain the rain water.

Beautiful little park 5 minutes from the city. Great place for a dog walk

Great place for a quick walk. Peaceful, with serene views of Corvallis. Quite muddy after the rain so be prepared with proper shoes.

One of my favorite hikes. Pretty flat and beautiful. Love that I can leave my dog unleashed.

Great on a sunny day

Short trails. Great view from the top. Great for families with small kids!

A beautiful place to go. Great trails for mountain biking. If you don’t mind the uphill in some places, it’s a awesome place to walk and ride. I would highly recommend Chp Ross Park to a friend.

The maintenance does not match the use.

Great views from the top. In a clear day you. Can we the Sisters and Mt Washington

Freat spot. Entry to some awesome trails. Watch out for poison oak off the trail.

This is a great place to hike if you dont mind hills. Can be muddy when wet. Great views of Corvallis and the mountains.

Outer loop is about 1.5 mi, ~300ft gain. Nice views of Corvallis.

Steep and very rough trail, especially when wet and or raining! View is AWESOME with sun and or with light clouds! Oak Shapperal (sp) has/is being restored & protected!

Beautiful ️

Good trails to get the heart rate up along with excellent vistas of the surrounding area.

Perfect for a nice little hike up and down. My dogs loved running around and exploring the area. They where intrigued by the horses. Just shows you a beautiful view at the top and definitely loved it. Not to far from home to visit a few days a week for a good walk/hike.

Great place to hike. Good view

Beautiful always

Used to be our favorite hike, but after the invasive species removal, its like a different place. It almost feels like a fire swept through, leaving barren hillside compared to before. With all the extra plants gone, there is nothing to hold the water which is causing huge mud areas and will most likely speed up erosion. But definitely a nice view at the top.

Wonderful place, but hard to park the car

So beautiful here. Amazing views from everywhere.

Very pretty once you hike to the top! Can see all of corvallis and surrounding areas.

It is really really muddy. Currently (Feb 2017) you cannot do the whole loop, part of the trails are closed (It is also a small place). They are burning trees too (there is a slight smell of burn in the air).There is a really nice view at the top.

Fantastic views with a lot of choices for low th of hike

This is a great park if youre looking for a quick hike and dont know how fast youll be hiking. With great views of Corvallis and the hills of the southern Willamette Valley, youre sure to linger at the top, and the wooded trails make you feel like your out in the middle of nature most of time, even though you are still very close to town. With four paths up to the top, you can choose a longer or shorter way back down to the entrance you came in at, making it easy to stay at the top for however long you want. Its a great place to look at the city lights at night and watch lightening storms! Theres also a trail into the southern MacDonald-Dunn forest, so if you have lots of time and feel like exploring, you can venture deeper into the woods. The only down side to the park is if you like feeling far away from civilization, there are several times in the tail when you see nearby houses or the church to the southeast. The tail is small enough that you are likely to run into others along the way, can be a positive or negative depending on your day. Like most trails in Corvallis, the main loop of this park gets pretty muddy when it rains hard, but with a couple of weeks of warm weather, the muddy spots are easy to avoid. Bring a blanket and lay in the field at the top!

Beautiful restoration project under way to protect and preserve Oregon white oak Savannah with many huge specimen trees. Great views of Corvallis to the south.

Beautiful views and great workout. Make sure you bring water to drink

I need to go here more

Gorgeous! Challenging hikes.

Do not go here when it is muddy. The initial ascend to the hiking loop winded me a little, which I adored and I will be back for more. A good mid week prep walk/hike.Very dog friendly to well behaved four leggers. Sweeping views of Corvallis with Reeser Stadium way off to the south and the mountains of Eastern Oregon (the Bachelor and the Sisters) to the due east.

Great place for a walk! Parking can sometimes be a bit difficult on really nice days.

A beautiful view spot of the city with a bench for taking it all in. Lovely hiking trails.

Great place to hike and get in to nature.

A great hiking trail that lead into other trails..An easy hike- not steep grades

A bit muddy, but thats what we get for hiking in December. Looks like they are clearing some trails and remapping. Cant wait for the work to be done.

Amazing!!!!!!!! My brother brought me here because we were looking for photoshoot locations. Its absolutely beautiful!! I think its the best view your gonna get in the Corvallis area. Closely tied with Fitton green area which is also an amazing place to hike with a great view of the Philomath area.

Very nice hiking place

Great place for eclipse viewing. Next solar eclipse Oct 14, 2023!

Pretty muddy Nov-April so be prepared, a good walk-around with views if not foggy or rainy

Its a nice park! Good easy hike.

Lovely hike. Great view!

Silk worms are everywhere this time of year!

Any descriptions you may read about it being lush and forested are no longer applicable. For some very stupid reason, the parks department decided to restore the park as Oak Savannah, completely changing the character of the park, and, in my opinion, ruining what was one of Corvallisites favorite parks. There is no shade on the hike up anymore. There is nothing but oak trees and grass. It is very open, very hot, and VERY boring! We had the great view at the top before, but now getting to it is not at all enjoyable. Outside of the waste of cutting down all the evergreen and deciduous trees and pretty much anything other than the oaks, this is not good for the carbon exchange, nor for diversity of species, not just of trees and plants, but of animals and birds; nor is it what I think the public would have wanted. I will probably never hike there again because it looks so little like what it did before.

Fun,relaxing

Beautiful hike.

Great tail and even better view.

Nice place to enjoy nature relax

Step but great walk with awesome view

Beautiful hike to the top and viewpoint over Corvallis.

Long or short hikes right in Corvallis

Really recovered after the fire.

A short hike. Once you get the top, you can see Corvallis and the cascades.

Great place to hike!!

Just too muddy and takes the joy from a hike ... but many people just dont mind ... but not me .... oh well .... See for yourself ....

Great views!

Great place to oversee Corvallis.

Great hike and awesome views

Good view of Corvallis

This hill can be super, super steep. But the view is worth it at the top!

Excellent place to exercise.

Gorgeous

Can be muddy on rainy days, but has some lovely views