Main City Park — Attraction in Gresham

In the 90s I was here for KFC pickniks on my dad's visiting weeks and catching crawdads with my mom on her visit weeks. We kept on in a fishtank. She fed him cheese of all things lol.

Now I'm visiting Tsuru Park, and have visited for other occasions, walking the Springwater or biking it.

Feeling like you need to take your safety net somewhere. Here can work good.

This is a keystone place to our Gresham. It connects you to Portland or sandy by the Springwater trail. It used to be a train track, paved we now use for a pleasing escape.

An express way to cities or an exercise retreat or both.

Grab some KFC and napkins or a dyi meal, a checkered blanket your bikes, helmet and gear, Rollerblades, skates, and scooters, Yoga mats, sand/weights, and water, umbrellas, cameras, light jackets,gloves, your shorts, then visit the neighboring water spouts over the way in the down towns spray park in the warmer seasons, bring your pets leashed keep it clean for your other friends, let go here, unwind, bring a lawn chair and tan, volley ball nets and ball sports, birdie game sets, or Bring your Horse shoe Gear or simular for use of their Gated horse-shoe-arena. There are open bathrooms. Their hours are yet to be noted.

Visit, play, snack, explore, read, write, journal, video diary, schedule meetings, visit your friends or families here.

Baseball. Other sports.

Bring just yourself one day or bring others with you.

Most of all experience this place as a place to know you can call it a home to home park.

Bike from spring water visit down town gresham grab a bite or freely relax in the island, video diary or take on your virtual meetings here. Then walk or bike balk or get in your car and head home or somewhere else too.

Have a great experience. Pack your kite on a roaring wind, your childs rc car, your family boomerang, visit during all seasons, all-weather be humbled. Every time. Rain wind or shine. Plan your week, your month while you're here or jot it on your schedule to make it here regularly.

And bring your bunny rabbit too, a lizards, ferret or chinchillas, a pop-up tent or take off your shoes, bring Your hamster, your bird, bring your pets, bring your time, your breath, let go here, set up taichi visits here, free classes, make this a park free from extra costs. #makeityoucan

Bring your chess or checkers board sets, bring it all. Ball, skates, umbrellas, and a shawl. Water snack or meals. Meet grounding space here. #peaceandmutualLove

Hope you felt some inspiration. Thanks for reading. Enjoy. #mindfulliving #BEincluded #inclusionMatters #liveloveletgo #livelovelaugh #LiveandLove...

I have mixed feelings about this location.

It is a nice park, great parking, clean, and super close to eateries/shops/library. The walking paths are nice and wide and level. Handicap accessible. There is a great picnic area and bathrooms nearby.

The park itself is sunk, lower than the busy street it is right next to. This buffers the playground from a lot of the noise and danger of traffic.

However, I had a very unfortunate experience around noon on a Thursday. When I arrived at the park with my child, we had the park to ourselves and enjoyed the quiet, two other parent's with kids arrived. Also, three strange men just "hung out" on a bench next to the playground for quite a while, (we checked out the garden island and played on the swings away from them) then I thought they left, so my daughter went to the playground area. One of the other moms comes up to me and points out that the tree strange guys are still there hanging out on the corner with the flags just above looking down on us. She strongly felt they were "casing the joint".

So, if something bad were to happen, because that park is low and secluded.. people from the roadway wouldn't be able to see it happen. I think it is just like another park in Portland, you need to stay vigilant and be prepared for strange people. I chose to leave right away with my daughter because the other woman was leaving and it wasn't worth the risk if these guys had tried to...

I have lived in Gresham for about 15 years now. My kids grew up going to the park. It had a toddler playground area and an older children area with a basketball court. It was a great safe place to go to the park.

Fast forward to 2017. They removed the basketball court. They tried to improve water drainage and failed. They (the city) removed the toddler playground area and installed a concrete skate park.

Now the skate park area has a lot of rift raft causing trouble. Worst than that is the homeless people and drugs that have moved into the park.

I haven't been to the park in years except a couple of times. It's unsafe and inhabited by the people that don't pay taxes.

So the City of Gresham not only raised taxes to so called "improve" the park but have done just the opposite.

I know a police officer that works for the City of Gresham. He won't let his children go there and has voiced this to other people because the dangers of the homeless people of the Spring Water Trail.

So in summary it went from a nice family park to a lot of kids smoking and causing trouble and homeless people taking over the areas that are supposed to be rented out by the City.

This is unfortunate and the City should do something about this especially since they take a lot of tax dollars from the community.

The park was great at one time. I hope it will be...