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Willow Creek Park

Willow Creek Park from directly overhead

Willow Creek Park is a park in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 51 m. South Saddle Mountain stands 1,048 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Whispering Woods Natural Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Vineyard and Valley passes 4.3 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
City of Hillsboro

How to reach it

Coordinates45.51331, -122.87692

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • York Park: 0.6 mi
  • Pío Pío Park: 0.7 mi
  • Beaver Park: 0.8 mi
  • Albin Woods Park: 1.0 mi
  • Recuerdo Park: 1.0 mi
Artworks
Gardens
Historic sites
Attractions
Peaks
Museums: 52
Picnic sites: 19
  • Picnic Shelter: 6.4 mi
  • The Love Garden Farm Stand: 8.3 mi
  • Shelter A: 10.5 mi
  • Stonesthrow Picnic and BBQ Area: 11.1 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 12.0 mi
Waterfalls: 16
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 8.1 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 11.9 mi
  • Knapp Falls: 15.7 mi
  • Willamette Falls: 16.8 mi
Beaches: 13
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Poet's Beach: 10.0 mi
  • North Beach: 12.7 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Reeder Beach: 15.0 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Waud Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 11.3 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.2 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.4 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.4 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 5
  • Oliver Spring: 12.7 mi
  • Fern Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Normandin Spring: 16.5 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 20.3 mi
  • School District Spring: 23.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.2 miles of Willow Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South Saddle MountainW 276°1,048 m24.2 mi
Long MountainNNW 330°689 m22.0 mi
Green MountainNW 322°676 m20.2 mi
Buck MountainNNW 339°649 m19.7 mi
Tuttle PointW 267°623 m22.3 mi
Tater HillNNW 337°618 m21.4 mi
Hoffman HillNW 320°614 m22.2 mi
Rye HillNNW 334°566 m17.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4519:24
June solstice05:2320:1921:05
September equinox06:5918:3219:11
December solstice07:4915:4216:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454750546063696964564944
Precip in5.54.34.13.02.21.70.50.51.43.95.96.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nature Park-beaverton, 2 mi away.

  • American Crow127 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco104 obs
  • Oregon grape98 obs
  • Mallard94 obs
  • American Robin90 obs
  • American Bullfrog72 obs
  • Fly Agaric67 obs
  • ragwort64 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/129999909

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