Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Stretching for more than 8 miles (13 km) on hillsides overlooking the Willamette River, it is one of the country's largest urban forest reserves. The park, a major component of a regional system of parks and trails, covers more ...
The Stone House, also known as the Macleay Park Shelter and the Witch's Castle or Witches Castle, is a two-story structure in Portland, Oregon's Forest Park, in the United States. Description and history. The Bureau of Parks commissioned architect Ernest F. Tucker to design the public toilet, pavilion, and storage room in 1929.
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.
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. Hoyt has 12 miles of hiking trails, two miles of accessible paved trails, and is open ...
Washington Park (Portland, Oregon) / 45.51583°N 122.70750°W / 45.51583; -122.70750. 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 ...
Balch Creek is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon.Beginning at the crest of the Tualatin Mountains (West Hills), the creek flows generally east down a canyon along Northwest Cornell Road in unincorporated Multnomah County and through the Macleay Park section of Forest Park, a large municipal park in Portland.
Northwest Heights is a neighborhood on the west side of Portland. Parks and recreation. Forest Heights Park, Forest Park, and Mill Pond Park. Education. Forest Park Elementary School, West Sylvan Middle School, East Sylvan Middle School, and Lincoln High School.
Coordinates: 45°30′43″N 122°35′39″W. Downtown Portland, with Mount Tabor (center) and Mount Hood in the distance. Mount Tabor is an extinct [1] [2] volcanic vent [3] with a city park on the volcano, located in Portland, Oregon 's neighborhood of the same name. The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son ...