Sellwood Park is a city park of about in southeast
Portland
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* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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.
Description and history
Located at Southeast Seventh Avenue and Miller Street, the park includes courts for tennis and basketball; fields for
soccer
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, baseball, softball, and football; picnic areas; a
horseshoe pit; a playground; paved and unpaved paths, and restrooms.
The
Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring through Gresham to Portland, where it ends south of the Eastbank Espla ...
trail runs north–south along the west side of the park between it and
Sellwood Riverfront Park
Sellwood Riverfront Park is a city park of about in southeast Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located at Southeast Spokane Street and Oaks Parkway, the park has paths, picnic tables, a stage, a boat dock on the Willamette River, restrooms ...
and
Oaks Amusement Park
Oaks Park is a small amusement park located south of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The park opened in May 1905 and is one of the oldest continually operating amusement parks in the country.
The park includes midway games, about tw ...
.
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge is just north of Sellwood Park.
Activities
Sellwood Park offers a number of activities such as a playground, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, tennis courts and
pickleball
Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players (singles), or four players (doubles), hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a net using solid-faced paddles. Opponents on either side of the net hit the ball back and ...
courts.
References
External links
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1909 establishments in Oregon
Parks in Portland, Oregon
Protected areas established in 1909
Sellwood-Moreland, Portland, Oregon
Urban public parks
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