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Pirate Park (NW Portland)
There’s a wonderful treasure in Northwest Portland. A park that makes everyone ages 1-12 squeal.
Pirate Park is a 16-acre park within the Rock Creek Greenway. It’s located in the Sunset West/Rock Creek/Bethany neighborhood in Northwest Portland.
The fun part of the park for kids takes a bit to find:
1. You have to park at the entrance sign and walk up a little bit of a hill. Play structure area is north of Brandenberry.
2. You will see a nice trail but no playground equipment AT ALL until you come over the hill. This really gives that hidden jewel effect.
The lowdown:
Equipment. Oh boy. There is a pirate ship! And so many bridges.
There is also a water spicket and lots of sand.
For kiddos four and under this totally counts as a day at the beach. Also my eight-year-old competitive gymnast and his gymnastics buddies agree the monkey bars are of good size and length for practicing on.
What you should bring:
- Stroller or wagon for negotiating the hill
- Pirate booty or some other snack or gold coin chocolates for some pirate fun
- Sand toys and big trucks for playing in the sand
- Baby powder for removing sand
- Buckets for dragging water places
- Towels to dry off after the water fun
- Hand sanitizer — There are port-a-potties, there’s no soap in them.
Pirate Park is just right down the street from the Bethany Fountains, Cedar Mills Bethany Library, and an awesome cupcake shop & frozen yogurt shop.
Get directions to Pirate Park here.
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Is there picnic tables or an under cover area to host a party at this park?
Just FYI, I know this post is a couple years old and all, but you may want to update it to specify that the play structure area is north of Brandenberry. When I got there with my daughter, we followed your direction to park on Brandenberry and go uphill. The south side of the trail was clearly the uphill side so we walked about a half mile south, across Laidlaw and into the woods, before I just accepted that we must have gone the wrong way. We got all the way back to the car, saw another mom and asked, and she was like, yeah, it’s right over there, and pointed north, *down* the hill. 😛
Thanks for the update and sorry about the long walk. I’ll add it to the post.
We checked out this park today. Super fun!
Definitely one of the best playground parks from THPRD that I have seen.
Thanks for putting this very informative series together!
This is our neighborhood park. How fun to see a blog post about it!
We LOVE this park. My boys love to play in the creek that’s at the park. We always leave WAY dirtier than when we arrived. 🙂