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The Columbia Indoor Pool is an indoor year-round public pool facility located in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally constructed as an open-air pool in the late 1920s, a wooden-dome roof was added in 1975.
Bend formed a recreation department and hired its first director in April 1949. Before then, summer youth activities were organized jointly with the local school district. Sites were maintained by the public works department until 1964 when the maintenance and recreation programs combined to form a new Parks and Recreation Department. [1]
Oregon State Parks: A Complete Recreation Guide, second edition. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books. 2002. ISBN 0-89886-794-0; Oregon Parks & Heritage Guide 2008. October 2007. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD), [1] officially known (in state law) as the State Parks and Recreation Department, [2] is the government agency of the U.S. state of Oregon which operates its system of state parks. In addition, it has programs to protect and provide public access to natural and historic resources within the ...
Blue Lake Regional Park is a public park in Fairview, in the U.S. state of Oregon.The 101-acre (41 ha) park, near the south shore of the Columbia River in Multnomah County, includes many covered and uncovered picnic areas, playing fields for sports such as softball, a cross country course (home course for Portland State Vikings cross country) and infrastructure related to lake recreation ...
Columbia City was founded in 1867 by Jacob and Joseph Caples. In 1870, the town had aspirations of becoming the terminus for Ben Holladay's Willamette Valley railroad. [6] The same year, Portland became the terminus of the west-side line, but the railroad never reached Columbia City. [6] Columbia City post office was established in 1871. [6]
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 13 of those are found partially or wholly in Columbia County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site is a state park in eastern Multnomah County, Oregon, near Troutdale and Corbett, and is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. It is located on the Sandy River, near its confluence with the Columbia River. Broughton's Bluff marks the westernmost extent of the Columbia River Gorge at the ...