April Hill Park

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Bug's Report:

The park is very small with a nice small playground and field,nice for daisy picking and playing with your dog(s). Really weird play structure thatI cant figure out how to work it.WhatI liked about the park was the big tree,you could go into the leaves and hideout in there.What I didn't like about the park was the playground was awfully small and there were little three year olds that tried to talk to you and all they would say was"blah ga noo met ra bug". There were boys there about 8-10 years old and were talking about nachos...really!But the neighborhood was beautiful. After, I made a daisy crown and got coffee ice cream from a place near by called baskin robbins.yum! you should go to the park!


Bear's Report:

I love the park but the borein part was that pepole said THATS MINE, DONT DO THAT or DONT GO ON THERE that maks pepole sad so wach out or... any way lets get bake to the pont. it was smal bad but the good pont about it was um little kids can play weth stuf.


Mom's Report:

This was a cute little neighborhood park in Southwest Portland, nestled in a neighborhood of single-family homes. There was a soccer field, a little playground with newer equipment, and a natural area that was pretty much off-limits. It was well-maintained and fairly easy to get to. There is no parking, just a little residential street that dead ends at the park.

The park appears to be well-used by the families in the area--we saw several while we were there. The park also seems to act as a shortcut between two neighborhoods, so there was some non-park foot traffic. The patrons of the park were pretty evenly divided between parents with their children at the playground and people playing with their dog in the field (all labs for some reason?!). Unlike Alberta Park--which felt very welcoming and inclusive--April Hill Park gave us a bit of a negative vibe. We didn't feel like we were particularly welcome there, possibly because we were not residents of the neighborhood? For whatever reason, it was palpable enough that the kids even remarked on it when we left. No one was unfriendly, but we did get some strange looks and there was a definite sense that we were outsiders there.

No climbing trees, but the grass was liberally seeded with daisies that the kids gathered in armloads. They made bouquets and crowns. There is no official dog area, but the soccer field provides ample space for a romp. We saw a few messes, but there are some plastic bags stashed in a post behind the park signs. There was a portable toilet for public use, but we didn't check it out.

All in all, a cute neighborhood park that gets good use, but that might not be often used by non-residents of the area.