Lents Park, Public park in Southeast Portland, United States.
Lents Park is a 38.07-acre public park in southeast Portland's Lents neighborhood. Its Charles B. Walker Stadium hosts the Portland Pickles, a collegiate baseball team in the West Coast League, and a new playground replaced one built in the 1970s.
The original land was purchased in 1914 from a site that had been used for gravel extraction. Over the decades, additional acquisitions expanded the park to its present size.
The park serves as a gathering place for the neighborhood, particularly when baseball games bring crowds during summer months. Sporting events here are woven into the rhythm of community life in Southeast Portland.
The park is accessible throughout the day and early morning hours, with restrooms and seating areas available for visitors. Play equipment throughout the grounds is designed to be usable for people of all abilities.
Lents Park was the site of at least one Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020. In April 2021, police responding to calls about a man with a gun shot a man in the park; a replica gun was recovered.
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