Elizabeth Price Park: Finally a park makes an appearance on Bull Mountain in Tigard.

One of the things that amazes me, even growing up on Bull Mountain, is that it never had a park, that is until last year when Elizabeth Price Park was introduced. Granted, when I grew up on Bull Mountain, it wasn’t a spot for larger homes and two Street of Dreams neighborhoods.

But, even with the Street of Dreams being first put on Bull Mountain in the mid 1990s, for some reason the community still avoided having a park put in. Well, today they have a park, but to most who drive by it daily, you will notice one thing missing from Elizabeth Price Park and that would be kids and parents.

What? A park without kids and parents, how is this possible? It seems the City of Tigard in their infinite wisdom of putting a park on Bull Mountain decided to put all around the park these beautiful “NO PARKING” signs! You have to walk about 1/3 of a mile to another residential neighborhood to find a place to park and no parent I know wants to walk 1/3 of a mile up a steep hill with children when they can drive ¼ of a mile more and park at the school and use the school playground on evenings and weekends and that is exactly what everyone does!

Now, I do have to say we made the trek and it is a nice park, but was it worth it vs driving the extra ¼ of a mile to the school? No, we won’t be going back to this park, but rather head to the school to play where if it does start to rain, we have cover and can still play catch or wall-ball.