Washington Park: 150 years

Established in 1871, Washington Park is 150 years old. 

To commemorate, the park has put up seven markers.
https://www.washingtonpark150.org/

They have also added art cutouts by Mike Bennett, whom you may remember from Winterland PDX.

https://www.atozoopdx.com/about

The cutouts are not fixed, but can be put away at night and rearranged in the morning, but they do represent the same park features as the markers. So there is a MAX car for the MAX station, trees for the World Forestry Center and Hoyt Arboretum, and a mountain goat for the zoo.

Up by the Rose Garden and Japanese Garden, another pair can be found.

Markers come in English and Spanish, and have QR codes that will tell you more about the attraction. This information is also available at the park web site.

Most of the markers can be easily spotted from the nearby parking lots, and easily accessed.

I never found the one for Hoyt Arboretum, but while researching, I discovered GPS icons on the web site, so that provides another resource for searchers. Hoyt Arboretum is technically a separate section of land, not inside the park, so it makes sense that they are the outlier.

I was surprised to see a marker for the Portland Children's Museum (represented in plywood by the Cow Parade statue that used to stand out front), now permanently closed. Then, reading it, where even the headline says "Remembering", it made sense. The museum was in the park for 20 years, but a part of Portland for 75 years. Before that, the physical location housed OMSI. That museum is a part of history and change.

Therefore, though I was surprised at how far the Zoo's marker was from the main entrance, maybe it makes sense that it is near the new educational center, because growth and evolution continues into the future.

https://explorewashingtonpark.org/