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Mill Ends Park, Portland, OR

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Sports & Outdoors

Mill Ends Park

A one-tree park in a downtown Portland median strip, long recognized as one of the world's smallest parks.

SW Naito Parkway and Taylor Street, Portland, OR 97204 · Portland, OR

About Mill Ends Park

Mill Ends Park is a round plot about two feet across, holding a single tree in the median of Naito Parkway downtown beside Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Guinness first recognized it as the world's smallest park in 1971. Journalist Dick Fagan started it in 1946 after an empty median hole sat unfilled, and he wrote about its events and a colony of leprechauns in his column. The city made it an official park in 1976, and it was moved slightly in 2021 during a street improvement project. Dogs must be leashed there.

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