Lents Park

So this is a great park; Walking path, unfenced dog park, baseball fields, playground, picnic, soccer fields, a little bandstand, basketball. Always some event happening in the nice weather.
Easy walk to downtown Lents and transit, the Springwater trail.
But the traffic does make it loud and as a single woman, I have been here after dark with my dog and been made uncomfortable, so no more of that.
Daytime only for me.

Huge park, huge trees, big open spaces… very beautiful.
Picnic areas, ball fields, soccer fields, basketball, outdoor stage, gardening… but the wide open spaces are really what set this park apart!
Walker Stadium, one of the baseball fields at the park, is now in the process of being updated. A Portland franchise of the new Great West League will expand the stadium to accommodate 1,500 fans. The league will feature amateur baseball players.
This cool park includes: accessible picnic area, accessible play area, accessible restroom, baseball field, basketball court, dog off-​leash area, football field, horseshoe pit, paths — paved, paths — unpaved, picnic site — reservable, picnic tables, playground, soccer field, softball field, stage — outdoor, tennis court. Enjoy!

This is a very nice, large and diverse park in the city. Good for kids, games and picnickers

Lents park has a Farmers market that feels very authentic if you know what I mean. There isn’t a bunch of mass produced fair type stuff that you can’t help but come across elsewhere and you get a view of the goats! I also like that it is right by the max station which makes getting there super easy. I had a fun day at the pro and enjoyed the sites and sounds of animals, a woman folk singer, and a rock band! All for just the price of getting there!

who would talk bad about Lents park. You guy are haters. Its cool. I just moved from the bay and this place is great. Kids playing basketball. Lots of dogs. Teenagers making out and the 1 or two stoners/​hobos hanging out. Thats a park. Not a rose garden filled with white people and a koi pond. lol. Its a good neighborhood park. Better than nothing! Don’t litter and tear it up!!! Its great!!!

This park is pretty nice. It has a half mile soft run way inside the park for runners and big play ground for kids. I enjoyed movie in the park during the summer here as well.

We love this park! It’s huge. Lots of big beautiful trees, a community garden and my favorite is the Unfenced off leash dog area. It is never crowded, it’s pretty clean, and lots of room for pooches to play, Easy parking. No water though.

Sometimes I think this park has so much space that planners couldn’t figure out what to do with it and just did nothing instead. I go here frequently with my kid. The playground area is extremely lacking, especially for the amount of space in the park. Most elementary schools have a better playground. There is a giant slab of recessed concrete adjacent to the picnic tables, which I could only guess used to be a summer water feature that has long since been abandoned, which is a damn shame. For the amount of people in the neighborhood, a summer water park would get a great amount of usage. I do really like the steps and low concrete wall surrounding the playground, and the giant firs looming over it. The area west of the playground with the community garden is alright to mill around in, if there are no dogs running around (since it’s also an off leash section), but still pretty boring. The rest of the park is swarming with sports in the good weather, and completely open and flat in the bad weather. Imagine it’s a great place for field sports, if you can squeeze in. Really wish they could give this park a little bit of a facelift, or at the very least toss a couple more features into the playground or the small unused field immediately next to it. So much potential.

One of Portland’s finest parks, and a great place for whatever you want. A peaceful walk among the trees and shrubs? Go to the southeast corner. Like soccer? Two fields. Concerts? A few times a summer. It’s got softball fields, a baseball stadium, basketball, tennis, horseshoes, wall ball — even an acre+ dog park and a community garden. Old growth trees add to the experience. Highly recommended.

This is my new neighborhood park.
It isn’t phenomenal or exceptionally beautiful but it is nice. It’s first date nice… the one where afterwards you wonder if you’re calling them again. That same one that makes you glad you didn’t kiss them… or anything else.
The .5 mile trail is a nice addition to the wundermutts stroll time. We have ample opportunity to stalk squirrels and watch the munchkins play soccer. We don’t really do the off-​leash thing here, cause my dog forgets her name when the squirrels are within chasing distance.
Added perk… community garden, gazebo, playground, sports complex type stuff and a 2 minute walk to the farmers market. That, to me makes this park a-​ok!

Good park if the dam neighborhood groups and city officials would stop trying to change it at every turn. the basketball courts get a little intense and should probably have more police driving by at peak hours. the dog walking area is cool. the community garden is neat to see. lots of soccer lots of baseball and several homeless. I stop in for walks.

This park is in a good spot, You can always just stop by and take a lil walk. The actual park is nice and on occasions you can meet friendly people. I come here a lot to just do what do you do at a park. FYI Raymond is the best park in SE Lents

Perfect place for a casual stroll with a nice dog and lady/​guy of your choice. Tennis courts are decent, nice basketball court w/​multiple hoops and often has full court games going you can jump in on, good sized playground equipment.
Path inside park is really strange and not designed well. In order to run the park, you need to run the perimeter which defeats the purpose of going to run at the park d/​t traffic, sidewalk activity… etc
Park needs a redesign, overall, IMHO.

for gods sake get some walk ways!
its VAST and green and covers lots of ground but damn, you gotta have your boots on for the whole trip. especially if you wanna walk through it.
the play structure on the Se corner is dated and needs some serious repair and possibly pistol whipped with some sanitizer.
but if its summer time and dry out, you could get lost in a giant green patch of earth and be just fine with it.

This is a great park to walk my dog in… and it has a pretty awesome park for kids.
There is a community garden there that I always wanted to check out… but then again I don’t garden in my own backyard yet lol
They have a designated dog area and I wish ppl would pick up their doggies poo and I wish they would fence that area off… because even though it’s off-​leash… it’s right next to a few busy roads. I have a fast running Italian Greyhound… I assume off leash is fenced… and we all know what it means to assume lol
Overall it’s a nice park and they keep it up well. There is a gazebo there that I would just love to direct midsummer nights dream in :)

This park looks really pretty from distance — at ground level. If you want to keep that delusion going, don’t look at the aerial photos of the park — or venture into it — if you can actually find a pathway or avoid being bored to death before you manage to get away.
I suppose it’s okay if you’re really into sports or have a kid or a dog you need to tire out.
Don’t get me wrong — I love this park, but it really irks me that I live right by it and it really provides nothing for me to do. So, I guess what I love about it is the enormous potential. What I hate is that that potential is so latent that it’s molding. This park needs a major make-​over that adds visual interest, a useful path system, and actual places for people to walk, hang out and just be people.

I’ve only been to the park a couple times. This is mostly because I only have two reasons to seek out a park. One is for a casual walk amongst some greenery and two is to take my dog to an off-​leash area.
Lents Park is about 4 houses down the street, so I would love for it to cover those two needs, but it falls short on both accounts.
The walking path basically follows the outside perimeter of the park. This stops you from escaping the sounds and smells of the cars zipping by at 35 – 40 mph. You might as well walk on the sidewalk and avoid the chance of a soccer ball strike. And the path rarely encounters any landscaping worth looking at.
The off-​leash area is almost useless. It seems to be a park planner’s after thought, done with no budget There is no real marking as to where it starts or stops, has nothing to facilitate poop disposal and is not fenced in. The latter point being the most important to me. The off-​leash area is located in the south-​western most corner of the park. This means there is the real danger of a dog running out into the road and getting hit. When I take my dog to the park, I want to be able to let him run around, without worry, with a nice shady place to sit and watch my pooch exhaust himself.
What Lents Park isn’t, is a park. It’s a sports complex.
Like I said before, I would love for this to be the park of choice for my needs since it is so close. But, it is not.