Fort Sumner Park — Attraction in Portland

This is a very small park, mostly visited by tourists to get a nice view of the City of Portland skyline...🏫📱

please don't park your vehicle in the lot next to the park. It's no longer a school, it's now apartments, is private property and subject to 🚓 towing without a permit. There's usually sufficient parking on North St 🚗🚙 😌

The locals like to come and sit around on a nice day, the dog owners show up with their pups, and for the most part... clean up after their dogs. The lazy owners, that don't pick up seem to go elsewhere... yay!👍

I live next to the park and enjoy the greenery from my windows, many birds, squirrels, and seagulls, with benches and two City Of Portland donated picnic tables. 👍 Kids like to run around and play here..., for the most part, it's safe and the space is small enough to monitor children. 👍

😠The drawback is..., in the warmer weather, in the evenings and at night, there can be many noisey teens and young adults. Even worse, sporadically, there have been drug dealers and users that interrupt the peaceful surroudimgs. Local PD does their best to remove them, but they keep coming back. It can be precarious if alone at night.👎

My advice, keep the visit to daylight hours and if so inclined, walk down Quebec St to the Eastern Promenade... really nice there too. 👍

If refreshments are in order, two streets over on Congress & North is the Hilltop Superette... The new owner, has friendly employees, lots of nice hot and cold food items, sandwiches, snacks, candy, beverages, picnic tables and an ice cream window......

I've lived in Portland most of my life. There are many great views of Portland. This would probably be in my top five of best places in Portland! Us locals Call It The View! Whereas you can see a lot of downtown Portland and the boulevard. It's great to relax sit on a bench watch...

Probably the highlight of my trip. The scenery of downtown Portland was captivating. Watching the sunset was purely magical. Great place for a picnic, practice yoga, read a book, work on an assignment or to serenade...