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Donald L. Robertson Park is a public park in Wood Village, Oregon, United States. [1] The park has a playground, an arboretum, a basketball court, and a wetland area. [ 2 ]
Wood Village was built as a company town for the Reynolds Aluminum plant in Troutdale; the plant closed in 2000. [7] The city was also formerly home to a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) Merix Corporation plant. [8] It was incorporated by a vote of 156–35, with narrow approval from Fairview voters, on June 18, 1949. [9]
Additional land was added to the forest in 1944, 1947, and 1948. In 1955, the Oregon Board of Forestry deeded 19 acres (7.7 ha) of Sun Pass land to the Oregon State Highway Division to create Jackson F. Kimball State Park. The park was named after Jackson F. Kimball, a district forest warden for the Klamath-Lake Forest Protective Association. [5]
Established in 1902, Crater Lake is the fifth-oldest national park in the United States and the only national park in Oregon. [3] The park encompasses the caldera of Crater Lake, a remnant of Mount Mazama, a destroyed volcano, and the surrounding hills and forests. The lake is 1,949 feet (594 m) deep at its deepest point, [4] which makes it the ...
Wildwood Recreation Site is 39 miles (63 km) east of Portland, Oregon, on U.S. Route 26 along the Mount Hood Scenic Byway just east of the Mount Hood National Forest information center. This area was near the end of the Barlow Road, the end of the Oregon Trail. The site is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and charges an admission ...
Unity Lake State Recreation Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.. Unity Dam was constructed in 1938 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as an irrigation storage project.
Homeless people who camp on public property in Portland, Oregon, and reject offers of shelter could be fined up to $100 or sentenced to up to seven days in jail under new rules approved ...
Booth State Scenic Corridor was created from properties acquired by the State of Oregon between 1928 and 1944. The original 50 acres (20 ha) property gift came from Robert A. Booth, who was president of the Oregon Land and Live Stock Company and former chairman of the Oregon Highway Commission. Booth deeded the land to the state on 3 October 1928.