Dickinson Park
This park includes a natural area and a playground.
This park includes a natural area and a playground.
David Douglas Community Park services the central Vancouver area as well as the Northwood Neighborhood. The Park serves as a central gathering area for sporting events and community activities. The park features several ball fields that are home to the Columbia Little League and the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Softball program. The park also includes a paved loop trail, numerous picnic tables, a picnic shelter, play equipment, restrooms, benches, open lawn space and access to the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail.
This neighborhood park includes a developed portion and a large natural area.
The developed portion of the park has paved walking paths, a basketball court, a playground, a softball field with soccer field overlay, artificial turf inserts on the soccer field goal areas, two parking areas, open lawn for play and picnicking, and extensive landscaping and lighting in the parking and main path areas.
The classic summer place, Dabney has been a popular cooling-off swimming and picnic spot for over 50 years. It's easy to see why when you visit. The lower, older part of the park at the west end features an asphalt trail leading down to a classic swimming hole. The newer parts of the park feature a covered picnic shelter, an 18-hole disc golf course and trails winding through tall bamboo, horsetail, cottonwoods and alders.
Crown Point is a must visit destination!
Located along the Clackamas River, Cross Park is improved with permanent restrooms, paved walking/bicycle paths, picnic tables, irrigation system, overhead lighting. Depending on water level in the river, this park is used year round by fishermen, picnickers, and for other passive recreation uses. Cross Park is about 50% landscaped, with the steeper banks in natural vegetation.
From the top of Council Crest Park, one can see five mountains in the Cascade Range: Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, Mt. Jefferson, and Mt. Rainier.
Cougar Creek is the first major tributary upstream from the mouth of Salmon Creek. Excellent riparian woodlands remain along much of the deep ravine in the lower reaches. Exposed sandstone along the stream bank bears the names and initials of visitors from over the past fifty years. The trail here connects NW 119 Street with the Salmon Creek Trail. This trail is a 6 to 12-foot-wide crushed gravel path that is relatively flat and parallels the Cougar Creek. The entry from 119th Street is a steep slope down to the trail from the sidewallk.
Overlooking the Tualatin River Valley, the 230-acre Cooper Mountain Nature Park offers visitors 3½ miles of trails that traverse the park and pass through each of its distinct habitats - from conifer forest to prairie to oak woodlands.
Part of the Boring Lava field, Cooks Butte is an extinct volcano rising to 718 feet above the Stafford Basin. There are numerous small neighborhood entrances to the park with a main entrance and small parking area off of Atherton Road via the Stafford-Rosemont round-a-bout. Cooks Butte contains 2 miles of soft-surface trails which are part of the larger Stafford Basin Pathway and Trail System.