Park · Oregon
Happy Valley Park
Happy Valley Park is a park in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 149 m. Lookout Point stands 802 m to the east, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Wetland Park, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Mount Hood passes 6.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Happy Valley
How to reach it
Coordinates45.45131, -122.52194
- 6.3 mi off the Mount Hood, National
- 8.5 mi off the Historic Columbia River, National
- 13.0 mi off the JCT CROSSING OF GIBBONS CREEK VIC WASHOUGAL TO JCT PLYMOUTH INDUSTRIAL RD
- 14.2 mi off the JCT SR 5 VIC VANCOUVER ALONG WESTSIDE VANCOUVER LAKE TO NW LOWER RIVER RD
Overlooks nearby
- Jonsrud Viewpoint · 12 mi
- Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint · 14 mi
- Crown point · 15 mi
- Windblown Fir Viewpoint · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Nature reserves
- Wetland Park: 0.3 mi
- Scouters Mountain Nature Park: 0.8 mi
- Upper Mitchell Creek Natural Area: 0.9 mi
- Happy Valley Nature Park: 1.0 mi
- Mitchell Creek Natural Area: 1.2 mi
Parks
- Rebstock Park: 0.5 mi
- Lucille Park: 0.5 mi
- Eastridge Park: 0.9 mi
- Southern Lites Park: 1.5 mi
- Kingsley D. Bundy Park: 1.6 mi
Peaks
- Scouters Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Mount Scott: 1.4 mi
- Clatsop Butte: 1.7 mi
- Mount Talbert: 2.3 mi
- Powell Butte: 2.6 mi
Attractions
- Pickathon Music Festival / Pendarvis Farm: 1.6 mi
- Bob's Red Mill - World Headquarters: 3.8 mi
- Crystal Springs Rhododendron Gardens: 5.9 mi
- The Pow Wow Tree: 6.3 mi
- The Spider: 6.9 mi
Artworks
- Jesus: 3.2 mi
- The Grand Calabash: 4.7 mi
- The Reader: 4.7 mi
- Unity 2: 4.7 mi
- Stone Cloud: 4.7 mi
Gardens
- Lents Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Portland Memory Garden: 3.4 mi
- Kirkland Union Manor Senior Garden: 4.1 mi
- Learning Gardens Laboratory: 4.2 mi
- Yamane-Bose Food Forest: 4.2 mi
Historic sites
- Robert Delgado memorial: 3.5 mi
- Heart Beacon: 3.5 mi
- Shotwell Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Heroes Memorial & Tribute: 5.5 mi
- Clifford Stocker Memorial Parkside: 5.6 mi
Waterfalls: 58
- Knapp Falls: 2.2 mi
- Hidden Falls: 2.5 mi
- Jane Martin Waterfall: 5.8 mi
- Singer Falls: 7.7 mi
- Willamette Falls: 8.4 mi
Museums: 51
- Oregon Military Museum: 3.3 mi
- Zymoglyphic Museum: 5.9 mi
- Portland Puppet Museum: 6.6 mi
- End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center: 7.0 mi
- 510 Museum & Art Space: 7.2 mi
Picnic sites: 23
- Picnic Area B: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Area A: 5.7 mi
- Picnic Area D: 7.0 mi
- Picnic Area C: 7.0 mi
- Picnic Area E: 7.0 mi
Cliffs: 14
- Madrone Wall: 5.2 mi
- Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 6.9 mi
- Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.1 mi
- Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.3 mi
- Tegart Bluff: 7.8 mi
Beaches: 11
- Swim beach: 7.9 mi
- Poet's Beach: 8.2 mi
- Sandy River Beach: 9.3 mi
- Lieser Point: 11.1 mi
- Lindbergh’s Beach: 11.1 mi
Springs: 5
- spring w/concrete cover: 13.3 mi
- School District Spring: 14.1 mi
- Giesy Spring: 20.1 mi
- Wahkeena Spring: 20.9 mi
- Oliver Spring: 22.3 mi
Ghost towns: 4
- Fulton: 7.4 mi
- Latourell: 16.0 mi
- Bridal Veil: 18.4 mi
- Champoeg: 23.0 mi
Rest areas: 3
- French Prairie Rest Area - Southbound: 17.4 mi
- French Prairie Rest Area - Northbound: 17.5 mi
- Gee Creek Northbound Rest Area: 23.6 mi
Natural arches: 1
- Ed's Trail Arch: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of Happy Valley Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Point | E 83° | 802 m | 19.2 mi |
| Walker Peak | E 85° | 736 m | 19.0 mi |
| Devils Rest | ENE 68° | 732 m | 20.5 mi |
| Pepper Mountain | ENE 73° | 655 m | 17.7 mi |
| Lenhart Butte | ESE 112° | 638 m | 18.6 mi |
| Livingston Mountain | NNE 25° | 595 m | 17.4 mi |
| Spud Mountain | NNE 26° | 576 m | 18.5 mi |
| Angel's Rest | ENE 66° | 484 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:44 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:22 | 20:17 | 21:03 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:48 | 15:41 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 44 | 48 | 53 | 59 | 63 | 69 | 70 | 64 | 55 | 47 | 41 |
| Precip in | 6.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 4.0 | 6.3 | 7.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland WFO, 8 mi away.
- Pacific Banana Slug77 obs
- western sword fern64 obs
- fringe cups57 obs
- Mallard54 obs
- Herb Robert48 obs
- Salmonberry46 obs
- Green Alkanet46 obs
- Pacific trillium45 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/131076447
Day trips start here
- Gresham · 5 mi
- Gladstone · 6 mi
- Milwaukie · 6 mi
- Boring · 7 mi
- Portland Metropolitan Area · 7 mi
- Lake Oswego · 8 mi
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