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1 BLUE STAR PARK 5 GOODYEAR PARK (100 West Slifer St.) – 2.3-acre way(920 DeWitt St.) – 2.7-acre park AREA
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side park located on Highway 51 and Slifer Street. Blue Star Park is home to a Veterans Memorial and Killed in Action Memorial for the City of Portage and annually hosts the City of Portage Memorial Day Celebration. A gazebo, shelter and picnic tables are located in this park.
CATTAIL PARK 2 (510 West Burns St.) – 1-acre park
located at Burns and Armstrong Streets. This park is adjacent to St. John’s school and contains spring rider playground equipment, green space and a small picnic shelter.
3 COLLIPP-
WORDEN PARK
(226 West Slifer St.) – 16.5-acre park named after Conrad Collipp, who owned one of the first brickyards in Portage, and the Worden family, who sold the property to the City of Portage in 1968. Development of the park started in 1975 through LAWCON and the City. Collipp-Worden contains two rentable shelters, playground equipment, three full-court basketball courts, two regulation tennis courts, horseshoe pits, sand volleyball court and a 9-hole disc golf course.
4 COMMERCE PLAZA
This .25-acre pocket park in downtown Portage was deemed a park by the City of Portage common council. It consists of a bathroom facility with small canopy area, park benches, trees and plant vegetation in flower beds. Located in the heart of downtown, this area is a beautiful natural area in a busy downtown!
Pauquette Park is Portage’s signature park featuring beautiful flowers, bridges over Bridal Pond and a fountain.
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which was originally donated to the City of Portage in 1903 by D.A. Goodyear. Another addition to the park was deeded to the City by the Portage Community School District in 2012. Goodyear Park is home to the Splash Pad, skate park, playground equipment, two rentable shelters and large green space areas along with two veteran monuments paying tribute to the military. The Portage Splash Pad was constructed within the park in 2013 and is now open from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. Operating hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
6 GUNDERSON PARK
(574 Meadowlark Ln.) – 11.5-acre park located at the corner of Hamilton Street and Meadowlark Lane. This park is just over 11 acres in size and is home to the first stretch of trail within the City of Portage park system. The winding trail connects behind Divine Savior Healthcare and provides a great escape for exercise within the city.
LINCOLN PARK 7 (404 East Carroll St.) – 1-acre park
which was donated by Chauncey J. Pettitbone in 1874. A school was erected shortly afterwards and remained standing until the 1940s. This park has a small shelter, basketball court, picnic tables and play equipment. The basketball court has new hoops this year.
8 NORTHRIDGE (Henry Dr.) – This property is
located on Henry Drive adjacent the Portage Municipal Airport. The land is dedicated parkland but currently hosts the City brush site.
TO RESERVE A PARK FOR YOUR EVENT, CALL THE PORTAGE PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT AT 608-742-2178 VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: portage.recdesk.com ONLINE REGISTRATIONS AVAILABLE.
