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Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) is a Bureau of the City of Portland, Oregon that manages the city parks, natural areas, recreational facilities, gardens, and trails; properties that occupy more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) in total. The bureau employs a total of 4,366 people as of March 4, 2019.
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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.
The department also manages the system of rest areas along the highways and freeways within the state. In 2006 the department was delegated responsibility for managing the Oregon State Fair. [3] The department was created in 1921 [4] as a branch of the Oregon Highway Department (predecessor to the present-day Oregon Department of Transportation).
The city of Portland, Oregon, has more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of public parks and other natural areas, [1]. 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.
In the 1950s and 60s, Oregon license plates featured the unofficial motto, "Pacific Wonderland". [45] Several symbols have been proposed for addition to the list of official state symbols but were never adopted. The "Oregon Waltz" was approved as the state waltz by the Oregon House in 1997, but the proposal did not succeed in the Senate. [6]
Portland Parks & Recreation Department 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 Tryon Creek State Natural Area is a state park located primarily in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the only Oregon state park within a major metropolitan area . [ 5 ] The 645-acre (261 ha) park lies between Boones Ferry Road and Terwilliger Boulevard in southwest Portland in Multnomah County and northern Lake Oswego in ...