page_title: Wilsonville Memorial Park
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Wilsonville Memorial Park / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Water feature at w:Wilsonville Memorial Park in w:Wilsonville, Oregon
context_page_description: Wilsonville Memorial Park is a large municipal park in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1969, the 126-acre park is the largest and oldest in the city. Located off Wilsonville Road east of Interstate 5, the park includes a plaza with water features, athletic fields and courts, trails, a skatepark, picnic areas, a dog park, and playground equipment. Part of the park fronts the Willamette River and includes a public boat dock.
context_section_description: Memorial Park at 126 acres (51 ha) is Wilsonville's largest park, and is also the oldest park. Located between the Willamette River (including 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of river frontage) and Wilsonville Road, Boeckman Creek flows through the park on its way to emptying into the Willamette. The park includes a trail system, athletic facilities, forested areas, picnic areas, parking, restrooms, and a skatepark among other features. Murase Plaza is in the northwest corner and includes an amphitheater and water features. The plaza was named after Robert Murase who designed the plaza and died before it opened.
  Athletic facilities at the park include several fields and courts. Courts include one full-sized basketball court, a half-sized basketball court, two tennis courts, and a beach volleyball court. The fields include one baseball field, four softball fields, and three soccer fields that overlay the softball diamonds' outfields. Memorial Park also includes the only skatepark in the city.
  Other developed amenities in the park include picnic shelters, a dog park, restrooms, parking lots, picnic tables, a community center, a boat dock, and children's play equipment. Memorial Park has two main picnic shelters, the River Shelter with a capacity of 200 people and the smaller Forest Shelter that seats 150. A third shelter is located at the athletic fields. The dog park area is the only off-leash area in the city. Stein Homestead Barn serves as a community space used for a variety of events. The wooden barn was built in 1901 by Gustave Stein and renovated in 2008, with improvements that included adding a sink and restoring the original shake roof.
  Natural areas include forested portions, wetlands, and a community garden. A portion of the park on the northern edge is forested and nicknamed as Owl Woods due to the presence of a great horned owl. Other birds that inhabit the park include wrens, pileated woodpeckers, grosbeaks, red-tailed hawks, and bald eagles on occasion. The park includes the Ernest Kolbe Giant Sequoia, selected as one of the city's heritage trees.
caption: Interactive water feature in Murase Plaza
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