Peninsula Park is a 16.27-acre public park in the Portland’s Piedmont neighborhood. It contains an outdoor swimming pool, baseball fields, community center, kids’ playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, covered picnic areas, a charming historic gazebo and many other amenities. In 1909, a portion of Peninsula Park became Portland’s first public rose garden. Today the two-acre garden has 5,700 roses of 75 varieties.

From 1913 to 1917, the park was the location of an annual rose show, until Washington Park became the International Rose Test Garden. The garden’s brick walkways, ramps, and grassy paths provide easy access to all the roses. The garden is home to Madame Caroline Testout, Portland’s official rose. In the 1900s this beautiful pink rose was planted by the thousands along the streets of Portland, giving the city its name the City of Roses.

Peninsula Park, 700 N Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR 97217

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