World's Smallest Park (Mill Ends Park) (Portland, Oregon)

Mill Ends Park in downtown Portland, Oregon, is a small park that was created on St. Pratrick's Day, 1948, to be a colony for leprechauns and a location for snail races. It is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records, which first granted it this recognition in 1971. The "park" is a circle two feet (610 mm) across in a traffic median which in 1948 was intended to be the site for a light pole. www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=Vi...