Portland ParksAtlas
Unclaimed · District 4 · Natural area · 20 acres

Powers Marine 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, sit down to eat, and be in a park.

Powers Marine Park Picnic TablePhoto from the City's park page

Park history

The park was named after Ira Powers, owner of Powers Furniture Company, who lived in Dunthorpe. Around the time of the Depression, he and other real estate associates gave this strip of land between Macadam Ave and the Willamette River to the City for the extension of Terwilliger Blvd past what is now Tryon Creek State Park.

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.

stay a while
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.

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

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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.

  • sit down to eat
  • be in a park
  • walk a soft path
  • be in a natural area
  • look out over water
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
Spring
Mar–May

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

  • walk a soft path
  • sit down to eat
  • be in a park
  • be in a natural area
  • look out over water
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
Summer
Jun–Aug

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

  • sit down to eat
  • be in a park
  • walk a soft path
  • be in a natural area
  • look out over water
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
  • sit down to eat
  • be in a park
  • walk a soft path
  • look out over water
0 programs · 0 events starts captured
What the record holds here, by season
SeasonProgramsRecurring eventsOne-time
Winter Dec–Feb
registration opens 10/08 (activities Nov 2 – Dec 13 and winter-break camps Dec 21 – Jan 3)
Spring Mar–May
Recorded from 2026-06-11
000
Summer Jun–Aug
Recorded from 2026-06-11
000
Fall Sep–Nov
Recorded through 2026-09; 2 months 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 and gardens spring through fall, everything else year-round) — not the City's schedule. Check posted hours for pools, splash pads, and restrooms. From 12 weekly catalog snapshots (2026-06-11 to 2026-09-07). "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 2026-09; 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 Powers Marine 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. PP&R does not publish itemized repair costs, so needs appear without dollar figures.

Condition across all assets

Citywide condition atlas

Across 5 assessed assets at this park, 40% are in poor or very-bad condition (rated 4–5). Pooled from the City's public assessment layers — buildings, bridges, playgrounds, courts, fields, fences, paths and amenities.

This count comes from the City's rated asset layers; the “Public assets” list below is a separate furnishings inventory, so its items and scores are counted separately and the two totals need not match.

Good · 0Above fair · 0Fair · 3Poor · 1Very bad · 1
Assessed asset families here
Amenities & furnishings2007 (2007–2026)

Condition is rated 1 (good) to 5 (very bad); no score means not yet assessed and is excluded. Park trees are inventoried separately and not counted here. No repair costs — those aren't published.

Repair ledger

Each row is one record from PP&R's public asset layer. No itemized repair cost is published for these records, so none is shown. Dates are the source's last published assessment; treat older ones as unverified.

AssetConditionStatusReplacementAssessed
Drinking Fountain
Condition very bad. Priority urgent.
Record 0531-DF-1
Very bad condition
code 5
Activeno2007-10-01
Litter Bag Dispenser
Condition rated poor (code 4). Priority high.
Record 5376
Poor condition
code 4
Activeno2007-10-01
Showing all 2 public repair candidates.
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Public assets

All 5

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

Picnic Table×3
333
Drinking Fountain×1
5
Litter Bag Dispenser×1
4
Official Portland.gov profile

From the City's park page

Powers Marine Park on Portland.gov

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Learn more about closures and postponements related to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

The park features large wood installations that provide refuge for endangered chinook and coho salmon and steelhead trout.

City label
Natural area
Year acquired
1926
Official acres
13.973
City section
SW
Neighborhood
Unclaimed
Location

S Macadam Avenue south of the Sellwood Bridge Portland, OR 97219

Directions
Hours

Park hours: 5:00am-midnight

Amenities and activities
Picnic tableRiverfront viewsPaths (unpaved)

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/powers-marine-park-531?utm_source=park_qr&utm_medium=sign&utm_campaign=park_531

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.