Copyright Betty Jung - Westlake Park

Copyright Betty Jung - Westlake Park

CNN’s Money magazine just rated West Linn #64 and Lake Oswego #79 out of its “Top 100 Best Places to Live”.  You can read it here.

One of the wonderful features of living in this small city  – Lake Oswego – is its accessibility to parks.  My house sits within a couple of blocks of Westlake Park – one of the many parks within the City of Lake Oswego.  Besides a play area and picnic area, there’s a softball field where summer concerts are held.  Here’s Westlake Park’s Summer Concert schedule.

I’d have to say my favorite park is one of the City’s newest parks – Foothills Park.  (See photo below).  It sits along the Willamette River which makes it an ideal place to watch the boats pass.  There’s a large covered picnic area, plus a small pool of water circling part of the picnic facilities.  As with the Westlake Park, concerts are also held in Foothills Park during the summer months.  Here’s the Foothills Park Summer Concert Schedule.

If you’re looking for a place to go this summer with the kids, there are a multitude of parks in the City of Lake Oswego’s system with each one offering something different:

CITY PARKS

• FOOTHILLS PARK

Foothills Park (City of Lake Oswego Website)

Located on the Willamette River, north of Roehr Park. “Views of the river from a covered platform; a ring of basalt columns engraved with the poetry of William Stafford (the Stafford Stones); a timber and stone picnic pavilion with a stone fireplace; pathways, a reflecting pond, and a grass amphitheater.”  199 Foothills Drive.

• FREEPONS PARK

Hemlock Street and Bickner Road

• GEORGE ROGERS PARK

Baseball/softball and soccer fields, picnic shelters, access to the Willamette River, a memorial garden area, rest rooms, playground and outdoor tennis courts Ladd and South State Street in Old Town

• GLENMORRIE PARK

Highway 43 at Brookhurst Drive

• GREENTREE PARK

Carter Place and Greentree Road

• MILLENIUM PARK PLAZA

Located on Oswego Bay and in the heart of downtown Lake Oswego. Open fireplace, reflecting pond, sculpture, trees, tables, plaza
200 First Street  and Evergreen.  Here’s the Summer Concert Schedule for Millenium Park.

• PILKINGTON PARK

19043 Pilkington Road

• ROEHR PARK

5065 Oswego Pointe Drive in the Foothills Area

• ROSSMAN PARK

Fourth Street and C Avenue

• WALUGA PARK

53 acres of active and natural passive areas, including two lighted baseball fields, picnic shelters, playground and open play areas, and nature trails.  15533 Quarry Road and Waluga

• WESTLAKE PARK

Melrose Street and Fosberg Road

• WESTRIDGE PARK

3400 Royce Way

• MCNARY PARK

Kerr Parkway

• RED FOX HILLS PARK #3

• RED FOX HILLS PARK #1

• PENNINGTON PARK

Boones Ferry Road

• SOUTHWOOD PARK

62nd and Pamela Street

• LUSCHER FARM

Stafford Road and Rosemont Road in the Stafford-Tualatin Valley area

• CAMPBELL NATIVE GARDEN

Upper Drive  in the Lake Grove area

NATURAL AREAS + OPEN SPACES

• WOODMONT NATURAL PARK

Atwater Road

• COOKS BUTTE PARK

Delenka Lane in the Palisades neighborhood

• IRON MOUNTAIN PARK

Natural area and wetlands with a system of informal pathways and wildlife viewing
Iron Mountain Boulevard adjacent to the Lake Oswego Hunt Club in the Lake Grove neighborhood

• BRYANT WOODS NATURE PARK

Childs Road and Canal Road

• SPRINGBROOK PARK

Among Lake Oswego’s oldest and largest natural areas. Informal trails, native plants, trees and wetlands, two miles of newly-constructed park trails connect surrounding neighborhoods, schools and indoor tennis center. Friends of Springbrook Park on Diane Drive  in the Uplands neighborhood

• CANAL ACRES

Childs Road and Canal Road

• KERR OPEN SPACE

Off Kerr Parkway

• SUNNYSLOPE OPEN SPACE

Childs Road and Hilltop Road

• ELLEN BERGIS NATURE RESERVE

Hwy 43

• CORNELL NATURAL AREA

Cornell Road  in the Hallinan Heights neighborhood

• IRON MOUNTAIN CREEK

• BETH RYAN NATURE RESERVE

• LAMONT SPRINGS NATURAL AREA

Lakeview Blvd

• LUSCHER FARM

Stafford Road and Rosemont Road in the Stafford-Tualatin Valley area

• RIVER RUN PARK

• SOUTH SHORE PROPERTY

South Shore Boulevard  off McVey-South Shore

• FIRELANE PROPERTY

Rosemont Road

• BROCK PROPERTY

Rosemont Road

• PALISADES RESERVOIR

Bergis Road

• HART PROPERTY Hwy 43

Enjoy these wonderful parks in Lake Oswego and concerts this Summer!

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