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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.

This manicured, highly managed garden nearly surrounded by Crystal Springs Lake has an outstanding collection of rhododendrons, azaleas, and other lesser-known ericaceous plants as well as many companion plants and unusual trees.

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.