Vancouver, WA

I have always thought there should be a park tucked away in this area nestled between I-205 and SR-500, little did I know that it was already a reality. The official address is 10500 NE 47^th Street, but I went to the entrance located just south of SR500 at the intersection of 51^st Circle and 112^th Avenue. Turn right if going south and follow the road until it circles back. The park is on the right of the circle. There are no parking “spaces” as such, but parking is available on the side of the road on both locations.

It has a very nice playground, a couple of benches and nothing else in the way of amenities, but we saw many people using it for taking walks around the neighborhood; which consists of Forest Service and other commercial buildings on one side of the park and housing on the other. The sidewalks are regular width and in good condition for strollers or wheelchairs, the park itself provides a fair amount of shade but the sidewalks are mostly sunny.

There were several children in the park while we were there and it was fun watching the parent-child wars of will since I wasn’t the one involved; though I had my own little war later.
The park is also supposed to have access to the creek, and perhaps I did not go in the right direction, but access was limited. I’m sure the younger boys, and some girls, would love to go sliding down the banks, but the water did not look that inviting to Layla or to me.

There was a small trail on the north side of the park heading east which looked interesting but I had to practically drag Layla with me; she wanted nothing to do with an open field and a footpath. We were able to find standing room on the edge of the creek and actually saw little one-inch fish in the water, which was the only excitement on that part of the walk.

The trail almost peters out, but did take us to back to the sidewalk and back to our car, and on a whole it was a nice afternoon.