Tacoma's Gulches: A Virtual Tour 

Came across this tour, and I love it. I have done so many gulches as a kid.

i love painting these bridges and tunnels in tacoma

After they sealed up the failed tunnel, there was still a lot of tunnel in place, and there was a house up near Yakima Ave, that had a hole in the backyard that was a bottomless pit- apparently it went down into the old tunnel and no matter what the people threw into the hole it never filled up. When I was in school there was always the urban myth that the tunnel was used to smuggle Chinese into the city. That myth arose from the fact that the Chinese had been forcibly driven out of town in 1885. Glad to see the old 11th St. bridge has been named for Murray Morgan, he was a teacher and friend of mine. When we were kids we used to collect junk from under the Yakima and 21st. St. bridges- the gulch was full of all sorts of trash including old cars that people has shoved over the edge. At the end of the 21st Ave bridge is Magoos Annex tavern which was previously Pat's tavern where a lot of beer was consumed over the decades.

I like how poetic it is to see the Proctor Street bridge that forms an eye into the past (eye shape looking through)

this is really cool stuff, thanks for sharing

I lived at the top I believe it was East Gulch. It was wonderful fun for the neighborhood kids with rope swings and nature. It is now a paved road with homeless encampment. O and the blackberries, my mom would sends us out picking. She made pies and cobbler and jam. So we liked them. Even fresh. It added to her cellar of jars along with things from her garden and trees. Even cherry pie. OH I miss that.

Lived near the T&E Gulch when I was a kid. That gulch has the short freeway running through it. Lots of homeless folk live there, and, until the City fixed the the 34th Street bridge over it, was the place of many suicides. In fact, my stepmother witnessed a jumper. She was calling 911 and the man jumped. Later, she got a call from the man's brother who told her the man was having financial troubles and was suicidal about it.

Super cool and spooky...I appreciate this because I have always been curious about these gulches but I am still not gonna go in them !!so thanks for sharing..great content!

Great tour. Thank you for all of the footage and historic photos!

Thanks, very neat info !

Was really hoping for a story on swan creek. Hopefully you will do a Tik Tok on it soon. 😉

Where is the link to more map info you spoke of?

How safe are these Gulches for hiking and exploring? Are the majority over run by a lot of homeless and crime that makes it more dangerous? So if you hike East Gulch it will take you all the way to Mt. Rainier?

Peanut butter without jelly is a thing, though.

Used to play in the swam creek gulch back when I was a kid in the early 90s and some homeless guy used to Chase us with dirty syringes his name was one eyed Willy used to have a blast in the gulchs first place I smoked weed to lol 🤣. Love you Tacoma.