Portland Parks & Recreation

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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. The properties, which occupy a total of more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha). The bureau employs a total of 4,366 employees as of March 4, 2019. 3,752 are casual, 559 are regular and the remainder are other categories.^[1]

The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan.

Following a City Council decision, smoking, vaping and marijuana use have been entirely banned since July 2015 in all Portland city parks and nature areas.^[2]

In March 2021, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality fined PP&R nearly half a million dollars for failing to establish a storm water control system to prevent toxic runoff water from an industrial land the park purchased in 2004 and 2009 for building new entrance and trailhead to Forest Park.^[3]

References

^ "City of Portland Demographics Dashboard". March 4, 2019. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
^ Theen, Andrew (2015-02-19). "No smoking allowed: Portland City Council approves smoking ban for city parks, nature areas". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
^ Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (2021-03-25). "Portland parks bureau fined nearly $500k for toxic runoff that drains into Willamette River". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-10.

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North	Arbor Lodge Cathedral Chimney Columbia Dawson Delta DeNorval Unthank Farragut Gammans George Kelley Point Kenton McCoy McKenna Overlook Peninsula Pier Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area St. Johns
Northeast	Alberta Cully Gateway Discovery Gateway Green Glenfair Grant Holiday Irving John Luby Kʰunamokwst Knott Merrifield Normandale Oregon Rocky Butte Sacajawea Thompson Wellington Whitaker Ponds Nature Wilshire Woodlawn
Northwest	Couch The Fields Forest Jamison Square Lan Su Chinese Garden Tanner Springs Wallace
South	Butterfly Caruthers South Waterfront Greenway South Waterfront Willamette
Southeast	Beggars Tick Wildlife Refuge Berkeley Berrydale Bloomington Brentwood Brooklyn Cherry Clatsop Butte Clinton Colonel Summers Creston Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden Earl Boyles Ed Benedict Portland Memory Garden Errol Heights Essex Flavel Glenwood Harney Hazeltine Johnson Creek Kelly Butte Natural Area Kenilworth Kern Laurelhurst Laurelwood Leach Botanical Garden Lents Lincoln Mill Montavilla Mount Tabor Mt. Scott North Powellhurst Oaks Amusement Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge Parklane Piccolo Powell Butte Powell Raymond Sellwood Sellwood Riverfront Sewallcrest Springwater Corridor Tideman Johnson Natural Area Verdell Burdine Rutherford Westmoreland Woodstock
Southwest	Ankeny Square Council Crest Darcelle XV Plaza Director Duniway Fulton Gabriel George Himes Keller Fountain Lair Hill Lovejoy Fountain Marquam Nature Mill Ends The Oregonian Printing Press Pettygrove Pioneer Courthouse Square Plaza Blocks Portland Firefighters South Park Blocks Terry Schrunk Plaza Tryon Creek State Natural Area Washington Hoyt Arboretum International Rose Test Garden Oregon Zoo