Parks & Trails
Caruthers Park is now Open!
June 18, 2010
From Portland Parks and Recreation:
Elizabeth Caruthers Park is now open! Just over two acres in size, this much awaited new park in the heart of the South Waterfront District is located between SW Moody to the east and SW Bond to the west. A community celebration is planned for August, but you can visit the park now!
Caruthers Park offers visitors an urban garden area, featuring a community gathering area with movable tables and chairs and a built-in bocce court, a garden retreat area with granite seat walls and a historic marker honoring the site of Portland’s first cabin, and an environmental play area with a spray/play stepping stone feature and seating logs.
There is also a naturalized landscaped area, with boardwalks, naturalized plantings, undulating topography with stormwater detention, and Song Cycles public art created by Doug Hollis. In addition, an open lawn area provides space for a variety of use, including an 8′ tall sloped landform for seating, sunning, and play.
Other features of the park include a variety of trees and plantings, pathways with benches, park lighting, a festival edge on Bond, electrical infrastructure for events, bicycle racks, a drinking fountain, dog waste bag dispensers, trash receptacles, and streetscape improvements.
Contractor work on the final touches will be ongoing for the next month or so. The fence around the lawn and landform area may remain up until August 1, as we allow the lawn to establish.
PP&R looks forward to celebrating the opening of the first park in the South Waterfront neighborhood with you this summer. It’s been a long time in the works, but this breathtaking new park will provide a place of respite and recreation, a place for public gatherings and private moments, for generations to come.
A community celebration is scheduled for Thursday, August 19. In the meantime, come down this weekend and check out Portland’s newest park!
For more info, click here.
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Anatoliy (Toliy) Ioffe is a long-time Pacific Northwest resident with a love for the outdoors. He is thrilled to live next to the river, whose valley has been described as Oregon's Garden of Eden.
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