Wallace Marine Park Softball — Attraction in Salem

Well sadly it's quite overrun with abandon cars, people living in cars, rvs, and the worst is the amount of trash spread out throughout the park. I went kyacking I set off on the boat launch area and traveled towards keizer rapids Park which all along the Willamette River is tents and trash so much trash. I hadn't been too the river in over a year, as I was out of state but I must say a lots changed in a little time. I hope as a community or better yet as humans we can come up with a solution to this travesty other than what we've been doing. My heart breaks at the amount of homeless I see, then I get mad at the trash the homeless leave. So what's the solution? I saw in other counties near marion they provided waste services and bathrooms, then I saw shortly after this service was provided that the bathrooms were vandalized and the trash was still all over the community. I am at a loss of words and my opinions vary greatly. I just hope our mother earth can bare this abuse...

This park has a lot of great features that make it the best in west salem in my opinion with one major drawback. There are large soccer and playing fields, access to the Willamette for fishing, swimming and a boat launch area, a nice playground, lots of walking paths on and off the sidewalks, and access to the downtown park via the foot bridge.

The downside to this park is by far and away the hordes of homeless that live in the park to the north of the softball fields and use the park as a highway from the downtown union gospel mission back into the homeless encampments in the woods and wallace road. I have come across some severely mentally I'll and unstable people here in the past, so I always keep a close eye on my children while here. I have been told by people that used to be homeless that it is dangerous to go into the north woods, and I chose to take heade to those warnings and rarely ever go back there in the...

Update! They have new security guards this year and they're very nice and very reasonable! This situation seems to have been corrected!! 🙌🏼 Power trippy softball guard dogs. Won't let you take water in to boost their alcohol sales, then when you call them on it, they threaten to separate you from your family. I had to dump out my children's water bottles and when I raised concerns about it, the security guard threatened to kick me out of the park. I did not call them names, I even acknowledged it wasn't their fault, and the bag checker guard had to warn the other guard to calm down. Extremely unprofessional waste of taxpayer dollars. Another softball watcher, an older gentleman, mentioned his wife was thrown out of the park a couple weeks ago because of her water. Insane they're making people dump out water just so they can sell more alcohol inside the park. Do...