Portland’s largest park comprises more than 5,000 acres, mostly steep and wooded terrain in the city’s West Hills. Landscape architect John L. Olmsted proposed the park as part of his 1903 citywide plan for Portland. Other authors of comprehensive city plans agreed, but Portlanders took several decades to get behind the idea. In 1945, the Portland City Club and the Mazamas (a local mountaineering club) called for a Committee of Fifty, mostly made up of representatives of civic organizations, to advocate for the park. Forest Park was formally established by the city in September 1948.

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