Stringfield Family Park

About the Program

Category: Planning (Best in Category)

Year: 2010

North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District’s (NCPRD) Stringfield Family Park opened to the public in May 2009, appropriately on the state’s Take Care of Oregon Day. It has since been deemed by even organizers as just one more of the great reasons for living in Clackamas County and Oregon. Aptly publicized as part of the state’s sesquicentennial celebration, neighbors, children, dignitaries, parks staff and citizens came together to welcome each other to new space and mark the occasion as one they and their children would remember for years to come. A brass band, state, regional and local officials, agency representatives and volunteers joined together as partners in the park project they’d anticipated since its conception in 2001. That was just before NCPRD purchased the 4.5 acre parcel of land and established itself in a comfortable neighborhood that was excited to watch a community park – rather than a crowded 30 unit subdivision that would encroach on their livelihoods incessantly – develop in one of NCPRD’s underserved neighborhoods.