Willamette Mission State Park — Attraction in Keizer

$5 day use fee payable by credit or debit card at entrance kiosk. An annual state park pass is available online. The park was generally clean and well maintained. The pit toilets were not pleasant. There are flush toilets available that were ok. There are a variety of recreational opportunities, including hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, picnicking, bird watching, fishing and boating. We walked the Willamette Vision Educational Trail. We saw a bald eagle, two osprey, two different species of garter snake, and a variety of small birds and wildflowers. Trail appears to be old roads, mostly passing between hedgerows and ag fields. Trail is mostly level with surfaces of dirt, gravel, mulch and mowed grass. On another visit we walked the bicycle trail around the Filbert Grove Day Use Area. The route is paved. There were a few spots where low branches might be an obstruction to bicycles. There is a bench overlooking the river near the NE point of the triangular loop. We sat on the bench and observed a variety of wildlife including nesting tree swallows and red breasted sapsuckers. We also saw nesting bluebirds near the...

Place wasn't a park. It was a field next to a dried up lake or pond and somebodies vineyard. No paved pathway. Got stickers and rocks walking in my shoes from gravelly, weedy, walkway, leading to nowhere. I thought after paying $5.00 my dog and I could park and walk to see the mission (there isn't one) and saw a wooden gazebo looking thing, so we walked there. Thought it would lead to a lovely path along a creek. It did not. Just a half circle enclosed wooden area. Weird. So we got in my truck and drove to the other end and saw more fields and driveways leading to nothing. Roped off closed areas for various groups. We drove around and left. Do not recommend unless you horseback ride or bike ride. Perfect for that. Not much beauty in...

Beautiful and historic park that is a walk through a story of what the Willamette valley is now and was 200 years ago with a journey through the time since. Complete with the largest black cottonwood tree in North america, a walk through an orchard, fields and Fields of agriculture that is grown here all leading up to a beautiful path that takes you to a doc where you look across to ghost buildings, which are the frames of buildings that used to be. Some of the first there ever were here on the West Coast in essence. Very worth the trip not a huge time commitment you can spend all day or an hour here. There are nice facilities for parties gatherings and there are restrooms. There's a large horse camp facility...