A simple logo for a simple neighborhood park.

Sewallcrest Park is a trusted neighborhood park for its old-fashioned, dusty baseball diamond and playground equipment.

Duniway Park is home to an extensive lilac garden containing about 225 plants of around 125 varieties.

The highest point in the west hills, Council Crest Park sits at 1,073 feet above sea level. The observation area at the top features great views of the city and mountains Hood & St. Helens.

Hoyt Arboretum was established in Washington Park to preserve evergreens for educational and recreational purposes. It was named in honor of Ralph Warren Hoyt, the county commissioner who championed the formation of the arboretum. It possesses the largest group of distinct species of any arboretum in the U.S. with 10,000 individual trees and shrubs, representing nearly 1,000 different species from around the world.

Mt. Tabor is an extinct volcanic cinder cone whose name was borrowed from a mountain six miles east of Nazareth in Israel. Portland is one of only three cities in the US to have a volcano in its city limits.

The International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park is the oldest public rose test garden in the US and is home to over 7,000 roses of around 550 varieties. New types of roses are sent to the garden from all over the world and are tested for color, fragrance, disease resistance and other attributes.

Colonel Owen Summers was a commanding officer of the Spanish-American War who later became an Oregon legislator. He introduced the bill that led to the creation of the Oregon National Guard. There is a relief carving of him in a large rock in the southwestern corner of the park where you can view him in all his mustachioed glory.

William Ladd came out west and settled in Oregon during the California Gold Rush. Today at the gardens, you can find over 3,000 roses of sixty different varieties. He came to be a prominent businessman and eventually Mayor of Portland. In 1891, he decided to subdivide his land into a diagonal street system surrounding a central park. That area is now known as Ladd's Addition, and it is one of the most unique neighborhoods in the city.

Powell Butte Nature park is over 600 acres of meadow and forest land, over nine miles of hiking, biking, and horse riding trails, abundant wildlife, and a true escape from the city.

Elk Rock Island is actually located in Milwaukie, OR, but was gifted to the city of Portland by the island's owner Peter Kerr. Kerr wanted Portland to “preserve it as a pretty place for all to enjoy.”

The island was formed by the eruption of an ancient volcano roughly 40 millions years ago. Lava flows shaped the large jagged rocks that may be some of the oldest exposed rock in the area. The island is only accesible by land when the water levels are low by way of the Spring Park Trailhead, otherwise a canoe or kayak is needed.

This little park is known for its big steep hill behind the baseball diamond. On hot summer days, you might find a super-sized slip-n-slide set up on the slope.

This park was requested by both Dan Lesage and Justin Holbrook.

Gabriel Park is on a plot of land that originally belonged to a Swiss immigrant named Ulrich Gabriel. He made his living off of his dairy cows and operated under the name Pine Creek Dairy.

This park was suggested by PSU alumni Randi Haugland, who loves the park for its tennis courts and says that it has everything a park needs.

Since Portland's first parkkeeper was appointed in 1885, the twelve blocks that make up the South Park Blocks have remained as they were conceived, as a "cathedral of trees with a simple floor of grass." Each block features a piece of artwork paying respect to a part of Portland's past.

Laurelhurst Park was named the most beautiful park on the west coast in 1919 by the Pacific Coast Parks Association, and in 2001 became the first city park to be named on the National Register of Historic Places. The design of the park by Emanuel Mische was based on the principles of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture. The park is divided into many sections (the concert grove, Firwood Lake, children's lawn, plateau and broad meadows, picnic grove, and Rhododendron Hill) to create a Picturesque journey with a different view at every turn.

The world's smallest park! The small spot of dirt was originally intended to house a streetlight, but after weeks passed and the streetlight never came, a columnist for the Oregon Journal named Dick Fagan planed a few flowers in the dirt and named it after his column: Mill Ends.

I feel like this little tree sprouting out of a dead piece of wood mirrors Dick Fagan planting his greenery in a forgotten spot of dirt.