As park-crazy as most of Portland is, we find that, out in Outer East Portlandia, especially in the NE area, there is a suspicious shortage of them sometimes. During the last five years, the City o'Portland has taken steps.
One of those steps can be found on the block bounded by NE Clackamas and Halsey Street along NE 106th Avenue. Gateway Discovery Park is what they call it, and it's a bit of a quizzical name but it's a lovely place to be, especially if you have burgers and fries to eat and it's about sundown.
This sort of sundown, to be exact.
I like taking pictures like the above. They're both pointed and unpointed: they're pointed, because the sunset's the thing, and they're unpointed, because that sort of skyline and sky combo makes a great framing element for text or perhaps other pictures you can put within. Also the rich color of that night was minorly incomparable.
They're building a six-story apartment/retail block besides. As centrally-located, in an outer-eastside way, as it is, this would be ideal for small families and others. And who wouldn't want to overlook a park?
The draped lights over the walkway on the east side of the park actually made it kind of cozy. There's a number of oval picnic tables down that side of the park, giving you a lot of POVs to choose from. And all during this time, small families would come and let the kids go about on skateboards and bikes and such.
And, speaking of skating, at the corner of 106th and Clackamas there's a facility called a 'skate dot'. That's a trendy thing, like a skate park only much smaller, and it was a big draw this warm evening.
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