The C.A.T. Walk & Fun Run is a great annual event to add to your 4th of July tradition! It precedes the famous Hillsboro Rotary Parade! The 5K course follows the parade route and takes you through the staging areas for over 150 floats and entries awaiting to participate in the parade.
Saturday, July 4, 2009, starting and finishing in downtown Hillsboro on Main Street in front of the Civic Center Plaza.

The Course
The course winds through the streets of Downtown Hillsboro. Participants will also get a premiere view of the staging areas for the 4th of July Parade floats and entries. This year's parade has over 150 entries and our walking / running route goes right through these staging areas. This is a great opportunity to preview up close and personal the exciting ideas and entertaining floats entered in this historic parade.
Click here for route map and directions.
Walk Contact Information
Tuality Healthcare Foundation
335 SE Eighth Avenue
Hillsboro, OR 97123
Phone: 503-681-1170
FAX: 503-681-1942
Email: tuality.events@tuality.org
Safety
Participants are allowed to bring wheel chairs, strollers, child-carrier backpacks, and baby joggers. In-line skates, bicycles, skateboards, scooters and roller skates are prohibited. Please be courteous to others and leave your pets at home.
Transportation and Parking
- Ride MAX to the Hatfield Government Center or the
Hillsboro Central/Transit Center. Both stations are only
a couple blocks from the start/finish of the event.
- All trips are wheelchair accessible.
- Visit www.tri-met.org or call 503-238-RIDE for schedules
and more information.
- Parking for the C.A.T. Walk & Fun Run is first come, first served.
Participant parking will be available at the parking
garage located
on SE 1st Ave. and SE Washington.
Participants are invited to recognize the special people in their lives
who have been touched by cancer. Tribute badge will be available for everyone to write the name of the person you are walking in memory or honor of and display it on your shirt during the Walk.
Walking in tribute of a friend or loved one is a visible way to promote
cancer awareness and treatment for the future while remembering those
who have been touched by cancer in the past.
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