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Southwest Hills · District 4 · Natural area · 5.7 acres

Governors Park

Natural areaPublic entry documented

The captured official page publishes visiting hours. Check the source for current closures. Public-entry status is separate from wheelchair accessibility.

Classification and evidence

Official page label: Natural area; Atlas classification rules. Classification: source-labeled.

Source captured: 2026-06-02. Human verification: Pending.

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Published activities: be in a natural area, and be in a park.

Governors ParkPhoto from the City's park page

Park history

This park was dedicated while Sylvester Pennoyer was Governor of Oregon (1894-1901), giving the park its name. Pennoyer was the first person to make a gift of property to the City of Portland for solely park purposes.

From the City's page for this park.

Visitor amenities

Published amenities are checked separately from entry conditions. Each links to other documented locations; confirm current hours before visiting.

…get here and move
…be in nature

What kind of place this is

A natural area: habitat protection and stewardship guide what uses and facilities are appropriate. Classified from official page labels it a natural area; our model.

What else should this park let you do?

Something specific to this park — the thing you'd use it for if it were here.

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School grounds nearby

Public school grounds within a half mile, by straight line. What is listed is what OpenStreetMap mappers have recorded, not an inventory. The district sets public access.

  • Ainsworth Elementary · Portland Public Schools · 3.8 acres
    0.4 mi

    On record: 3 playgrounds, 2 multi-use pitchs, 1 basketball pitch. Not recorded in this property’s inventory: basketball court, soccer or futsal field, playground.

Beyond parks explains what opening a school ground would take.

School grounds: Metro RLIS. Features inside them: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Through the year

Seasonal facilities and listings captured by the Atlas. These records do not measure attendance, utilization or all activity at the site.

Counts describe captured listings, not attendance or all activity. No listings captured does not mean the site is unused.

Winter
Dec–Feb

Dark by 5 and wet most days: cover, lighting, indoor rooms, and paths that drain.

  • be in a park
  • be in a natural area
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
Spring
Mar–May

Fields and gardens open; showers between sun. Leagues, planting, first picnics.

  • be in a park
  • be in a natural area
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
Summer
Jun–Aug

Water, shade, long evenings — the season the system is built around.

  • be in a park
  • be in a natural area
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
Fall
Sep–Nov

Light shortens and leagues wind down; shelters and lighting carry the season.

  • be in a natural area
  • be in a park
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
What the record holds here, by season
SeasonProgramsRecurring eventsOne-time
Winter Dec–Feb
Not yet published
———
Spring Mar–May
Recorded from 2026-06-11
000
Summer Jun–Aug
Recorded from 2026-06-11
000
Fall Sep–Nov
Recorded through 2026-10; 1 month still to come
000
Our reading of the calendar
Which facilities count as in season is our model of Portland's year (splash pads and wading pools in summer; fields, gardens and interactive fountains spring through fall; everything else year-round) — not the City's schedule. Check posted hours for pools, splash pads, and restrooms. From 16 weekly catalog snapshots (2026-06-11 to 2026-10-12). "Programs" are distinct titles; "sections" are the catalog's individual records — a swim level at one time slot for one week is one section. Complete through 2026-10; later months fill in as registration opens. Winter counts fill in when winter registration opens.

What's on

No current listings were captured and matched to this property. This does not establish that no activity takes place. See the citywide calendar and programs.

Partners & friends

The whole ecosystem
Opportunity signal

No known partner is currently linked to Governors Park in the Partnership Atlas. This is an opportunity signal, not an official priority.

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How it's holding up

The City's own inventory of what is here and the condition it last recorded for each item. Dates are the source's; old dates mean no newer public assessment, not that nothing has happened since. Historical project estimates appear below; they are separate from these condition records.

Historical cost profile · 2023 reporting

Governors Park

$95.8K

1 distinct source rows. Proposed repair and improvement costs, not a current funding gap.

All-in annual service cost: Not established

Current remaining repair cost: Not verified

What the estimates cover

Paths & access$95.8K

Categories are Atlas labels based on project titles. Expansion and new provision are included where proposed; a project can include several kinds of work.

The work, cost & reason (1 source rows)
Pathway Renovation$95,849

Asset as named in source: Governors Park

Replace the damaged pathway, trails and sidewalks that have been rated as 4 and 5 in Pathway assessment

KGW table row 406. Source field: “Escalated Estimate.” Estimate date, inflation basis, funded amount and completion status are not supplied.

Original source table ↗

No rated built records linked in the condition dataset. Condition ratings do not determine these dollar estimates.

Source: KGW’s November 2023 table. Current status, remaining scope and funding are unverified. Exact duplicate rows count once; other scope overlaps remain unresolved.

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Annual service · FY 2026–27 adopted

A complete annual cost is not yet available.

This property has no named account linked in the public budget extract. Shared crews and citywide programs may still fund its care.

Later budget supplements and unallocated shared services are not included.

Annual breakdown & district context →

District picture · District 4

This park in the district picture

The same public records, read the same way for every property, so this park can be set next to its district. Each figure keeps its own source and date. “Not available” means the source has no record for this property. It is not a zero.

People nearby

Residents within a half mile
8,054
Households within a half mile
4,622

2020 Census blocks whose centre point lies within a half mile of the park boundary, measured in a straight line. Residents, not visitors. Blocks outside the city limits count.

Recorded backlog

Open backlog IDs
1
Closed backlog IDs
0

Records in the PP&R backlog map workbook that name this property. The workbook publishes no cost field, so these are counts of records, not dollars.

Active capital projects

Active geocoded projects
0

Geocoded PP&R capital projects at this property, a subset of the full capital program. The cost is the published estimated total project cost, not spending to date.

Who is on record

No partner agreement on record

The department-provided directory names no agreement here. Friends groups without a formal agreement are not captured.

From the department-provided partnership directory. It records what is on paper, not who does each task.

Repair ledger

Public data does not currently flag repair candidates for this park. Additional PP&R maintenance exports can be added without changing the page structure.

Know this park?

Seen something here that's broken, fixed, or missing from this list? Records are updated periodically; tell us what you see.

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Public assets

All 0

Furnishings the City inventories here, with each item's condition score — 1 is good, 5 is very bad. Asset photos aren't public yet.

Official Portland.gov profile

From the City's park page

Governors Park on Portland.gov

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City label
Natural area
Year acquired
1894
Official acres
5.738
City section
SW
Neighborhood
Southwest Hills
Location

SW 13th Avenue and Davenport Street Portland, OR 97201

Directions
Hours

Park hours: 5:00am-midnight

All dogs must be leashed in this park.

This page, on a sign

The QR label for this park points here. Print labels →

https://parks.portlandciviclab.org/parks/governors-park-166?utm_source=park_qr&utm_medium=sign&utm_campaign=park_166

Where this comes from

Facilities from the City's amenity pages and asset layers; hours, photo, and history from the City's park page; programs and events from its catalogs; condition from PortlandMaps public records. Where the City publishes nothing, this page says so instead of guessing.