Four Future Parks in Milwaukie
In 2014, North Clackamas Parks & Recreation District (NCPRD) and the City of Milwaukie invited community members to a series of visioning meetings to weigh in on the development of four new parks in Milwaukie. The parks are currently known as Balfour, Bowman-Brae, and Wichita parks and Robert Kronberg Nature Park. While funding to build the parks still needs to be identified , community input helped shape the concepts for these future parks.
BALFOUR PARK is a .8-acre, undeveloped neighborhood park site located in the Ardenwald/Johnson Creek neighborhood at 3103 S.E. Balfour St. in Milwaukie. The City of Milwaukie purchased the land in 2008 with funds from Metro’s voter-approved 2006 natural areas bond measure. NCPRD and the City hosted two meetings this fall to discuss the park site and develop a final draft master plan. The final draft master plan includes a nature play area, a flexible open lawn, a community garden area, pathways and other neighborhood park elements.
View the final Master Plan here.
BOWMAN-BRAE PARK is a .69-acre undeveloped neighborhood park located at the intersection of Bowman and Brae streets in Milwaukie. The City purchased the land in 2011 with assistance from Metro’s voter-approved 2006 natural areas bond measure. NCPRD and the City hosted two meetings in late 2014 to discuss the park site and develop a draft master plan. The master plan includes a small picnic shelter, an accessible play area, picnic tables, a meandering path, and plantings.
View the final Master Plan here.
ROBERT KRONBERG NATURE PARK is an approximately 5 acre park site located between Kellogg Lake and McLoughlin Boulevard, just south of downtown Milwaukie. The property includes land deeded to the City in 1991 by Robert Kronberg and his wife Dena Swanson and land purchased by the City of Milwaukie with funds from Metro’s voter-approved 1995 natural areas bond measure. Current light rail construction includes a bicycle and pedestrian bridge spanning a portion of the lake and park site. NCPRD staff and community members have worked together to enhance the natural resources of the property over the past seven years, including reestablishing native trees and removing trash and weeds. The final park master plan includes a multi-use pathway, maintenance access, soft-surface pathways, experiential nodes, and habitat preservation and restoration.
View the final Master Plan here.
Robert Kronberg Nature Park Project Page
WICHITA PARK is a 1-acre undeveloped neighborhood park site located in the Linwood neighborhood at 5908 S.E. Monroe Street in Milwaukie. This property currently has an open lawn area with a few trees planted by neighborhood volunteers. The existing master plan for the park includes a play structure, a half-court basketball court, a perimeter path, picnic tables, benches and a disk golf basket. It was adopted into the Milwaukie Comprehensive Plan in 1999. Updates to the Wichita Park Master Plan were made in 2011 by the Linwood Neighborhood Association with assistance from consultants and approved by the Milwaukie Planning Commission in May, 2014. NCPRD and the City completed an initial set of construction drawings and a detailed construction cost estimate in May, 2015. Check out the Wichita Park Master Plan on the City of Milwaukie’s website here.