page_title: Rood Bridge Park
section_title: Amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Rood Bridge Park / Amenities
caption_attribution_description: w:Rood Bridge Park in w:Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
context_page_description: Rood Bridge Park is a municipal park in southeast Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1999, the park encompasses 60 acres on the north bank of the Tualatin River at its confluence with Rock Creek. Rood Bridge is near Hillsboro High School and sits across the river from Meriwether National Golf Course. The park is the city’s largest, and contains tennis courts, a meeting facility, trails, a canoe launch, and a rhododendron garden among other features.
context_section_description: Officially 60.1 acres (24.3 ha), the city also utilizes an additional 15 acres (6.1 ha) through an agreement with Clean Water Services that operates a wastewater treatment plant adjacent to the community park. An area of 43 acres (170,000 m²) of the park is covered by a forest and floodplain. One of twenty-three parks in Hillsboro, Rood Bridge is located along the Tualatin River and Rock Creek where the two water bodies meet. The park is accessed by Rood Bridge Road where Rood Bridge crosses the Tualatin. Wildlife at the park includes woodpeckers and owls among others.
  Rood Bridge Park has wooded areas as well as grass covered sections, both crossed by biking and hiking trails. Paved trails total 12,089 feet (3,685 m) in length while other trails total 6,172 feet (1,881 m) in length. There are also restrooms, a small boat launch, and onsite parking. Recreation equipment includes a play area for children and a pair of tennis courts. The park is also used as the home course for Hillsboro High School’s cross-country team, including hosting the Bill Chapman Invitational race.
  The park includes the Lloyd Baron Rhododendron Garden that contains in excess of 550 species of the plant and includes a pond. The rhododendron is the official flower of the city. The garden covers 1.5 acres (6,100 m²) and has both natural and hybrid species. A concrete and stone pavilion sits on the shore of Woodland Pond and is used for events such as wedding ceremonies. There are also two waterfalls on the pond, with the waterfalls and pavilion designed by Sadafumi Uchiyama, Bob Schatz, and Ross NW Warergardens. The garden came after decades of lobbying for a garden at a city park for the species.
  Also at Rood Bridge Park is the nearly 3,000-square-foot (280 m²) River House. The lodge type structure is used for educational classes as well as private functions such as weddings. River House was paid for in part by city development fees and by donations of money, labor, and material from the Rotary Club. The building includes a central meeting room (Great Room), a kitchen, restrooms, a small meeting room, and an activity room. The Great Room features a fireplace, maple floors, vaulted ceilings, a small sunroom, and covers 1,260 square feet (117 m²). The activity room is also used as a classroom and totals 672 square feet (62.4 m²). The River House is 2,845 square feet (264.3 m²) and the annex is an additional 640 square feet (59 m²) and can hold 75 people.
caption: River House at Rood Bridge Park
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