Laurelhurst Park (Portland, Oregon)

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Large city park with duck pond

Don't let your dogs eat stray sausages here. The park was host to a number of poisoned sausage related dog deaths in 2003.

This is a showpiece for the Portland Parks and Recreation Dept, as it has been for most of a century. The first city park ever to be designated a US historical site. It was designed by the Olmsteads, after they did Central Park in NY, and it shows. Check out the pictures here

www.ourlaurelhurst.org/wiki/index.php/Laurelhurst_Park

and here

www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=Vi...
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Coordinates:   45°31'15"N   122°37'36"W

Comments

  • Correction -- it was not designed by F. L. Olmstead, but by a disciple of his.
  • The bright green area near the middle is a pond -- there's a bit of an algae problem.
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