Powell Park — Attraction in Portland

Great Camping along the MyersCorp fence-line, but set up early to claim anything close. Forget the spots against the fence, for many years each has enjoyed a waiting line full of top PDX camping legends, take it from me, you ain't got a chance. Another tip for you MF-line seekers is... Up with the Sun! Sure there's plenty of room for you and your peeps along the wide path. And you can't believe it's after sunset and not one camper has claimed any of it. That's because the local Powell Park regulars know that the guy that aims the sprinklers in the ballpark, hates that the big tent & sleeping bag makers keep getting away with calling their cheap stuff water resistant, and the average 1st time tent buyer falls for their lies. Soaking you with water about 4 AM is his idea of getting the truth out. Speaking of the great staff, l hope Portland has quite a gold watch planned for the one fella brave enough to do the scheduled servicing on the parks famous HoneyBucket. No telling what you will see when you force open that door, ignoring that red occupied indicator, after 20 minutes of hoping to wake the tweeker nodding inside. The city should at least provide him with body armor and pay for his...

I work next to Powell City Park, and walk around it often. It is not the nicest of parks, but it is a change from staring at a computer screen all day. Students from Cleveland High School can often be found here usually just hanging out, but often playing sports too. There are sometimes a lot of small children playing in the playground. I think some of them might be from a local daycare. There are also a lot of homeless people that hang out in Powell City Park. They seem to have been successful in discouraging the camping that use to happen frequently. For a highly used park on an incredibly busy street it isn't a such a bad spot. I would not, however, visit it if I wasn't already in the neighborhood. It isn't a...

I used to take walks on my lunch here until it started to fill up with campers.

I once walked past someone making a spit volcano which stayed in the middle of the sidewalk for a few days. Not very appetizing...

When my young daughter comes to visit me on my lunch we used to go for walks in the park until I found a needle in the bushes...

I used to eat lunch on the bleachers on nicer days but the rats are a little aggressive since there is so much trash...

It really bothers me that this is a place for kids, next to a high school and I see drug use, discarded needles, and people who think this is their own trash dump!

Not a great park but it does seem to be the norm for the inner...