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Washington Park is a public urban park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.It includes a zoo, forestry museum, arboretum, rose garden, Japanese garden, amphitheatre, memorials, archery range, tennis courts, soccer field, picnic areas, playgrounds, public art and many acres of wild forest with miles of trails.
Hoyt Arboretum is a public park in Portland, Oregon, which is part of the complex of parks collectively known as Washington Park.The 189-acre (76 ha) arboretum is located atop a ridge in the Tualatin Mountains two miles (3.2 km) west of downtown Portland.
The Washington Park & Zoo Railway (WP&ZRy) is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge [1] recreational railroad in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park with rolling stock built to 5/8 scale. Opened in three stages in 1958, [ 2 ] 1959 and 1960, [ 3 ] it previously provided transportation between the Oregon Zoo , Hoyt Arboretum , International Rose Test ...
Barbara Walker Crossing is a 180-foot (55 m) steel footbridge connecting Forest Park and Washington Park, carrying the Wildwood Trail across West Burnside Street.The bridge was designed by Ed Carpenter and named for Barbara Walker, a parks advocate who died in 2014. [1]
As part of beautification planning for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition of 1905, Portland's recently established Parks Board invited the Olmsted Brothers in 1903. . Besides suggestions for Washington Park, their research of existing city parks resulted in a bold proposal for a loop of interconnected parks around the city, instead of a traditional plan of scattered parks: "A connected ...
The longest trail in the park is the Wildwood Trail, of which about 27 miles (43 km) is in Forest Park and about 3 miles (4.8 km) in Washington Park. [6] It is also the longest section of the 40-Mile Loop, a trail network of roughly 150 miles (240 km) reaching many parts of the Portland metropolitan area. [ 62 ]
Just five months later, he offered to donate the bears, along with their cages, to the city. Portland City Council accepted his offer [9] on November 7, 1888, and thus began the Portland Zoo. [5] Located in Washington Park, it was sometimes referred to as the Washington Park Zoo. [11] [12] By 1894, there were over 300 animals in the zoo’s ...
Portland is home to one of the largest municipal parks in the United States, Forest Park, as well as the world's smallest park—at 61 centimetres (24 in) in diameter—Mill Ends Park. The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan. There are at least 279 parks and natural areas in Portland.