{"id":410,"date":"2008-09-13T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:53:02","slug":"riverfront-park-salem-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/13\/riverfront-park-salem-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverfront Park (Salem, Oregon)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Williamette

Williamette River at the south end of Riverfront Park<\/p><\/div>\n

This huge and beautiful park is worth the couple mile detour for anyone travelling along I-5 in Oregon.\u00a0 Our first stop was the picnic area.\u00a0 They have a large covered section of tables, which was taken when we were there so we ate at a table in the sun (during a heat wave unfortunately).<\/p>\n

\"Covered

Covered picnic area at Riverfront Park<\/p><\/div>\n

The building in the background houses a gift shop and an old-time carousel<\/a>.\u00a0 With fairly safe bathrooms and air conditioning.\u00a0 $1.50 per ride for both adults and children.\u00a0 Children must be 42″ to go alone.\u00a0 They would not allow me to ride on the same horse as Miriam or to ride on a horse next to her.\u00a0 I had to stand.\u00a0 But Miriam chose the sleigh instead.<\/p>\n

\"Miriam

Miriam & Cyndi on the Riverfront Park Carousel<\/p><\/div>\n

Next we walked down to the far south end of the park to see the handmade tiled Eco Globe.<\/p>\n

\"Eco

Eco Earth Globe Eastern Hemisphere<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Eco

Eco Earth Globe Western Hemisphere<\/p><\/div>\n

This 23 acre park has plenty of room to spread out.<\/p>\n

\"Grassy

Grassy expanse at Riverfront Park<\/p><\/div>\n

We walked back past the playground but, despite asking for it, Miriam was too hot to play.<\/p>\n

\"A

A very hot and tired Miriam & Michael heading away from the Riverfront Park playground<\/p><\/div>\n

The Williamette River runs along the entire west side of the park.<\/p>\n

\"Miriam

Miriam reading the river map<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Williamette

Williamette River at the north end of Riverfront Park<\/p><\/div>\n

After our long walk, we were ready to get indoors.\u00a0 Our next stop: the A.C. Gilbert Discovery Village<\/a> down the block.<\/p>\n

Disability access:<\/strong> Nice flat sidewalks making a loop around the park.\u00a0 Plenty of places to sit down and rest.\u00a0 The bathrooms inside the carousel building were decent (no strong scents) and the building itself seemed okay.\u00a0 I didn’t test the bathrooms by the playground.\u00a0 I don’t know what their pest and weed control is there but I didn’t notice any chemicals.<\/p>\n

Riverfront Park<\/strong>
\n116 Marion St. NE, Salem, OR
\nhttp:\/\/www.cityofsalem.net\/departments\/parks\/river_front.htm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This huge and beautiful park is worth the couple mile detour for anyone travelling along I-5 in Oregon.\u00a0 Our first stop was the picnic area.\u00a0 They have a large covered section of tables, which was taken when we were there so we ate at a table in the sun (during a heat wave unfortunately). The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,102,110,99,101],"tags":[98,51,112],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carousels","category-parks","category-picnics","category-places-to-go","category-playgrounds","tag-oregon","tag-photos-family","tag-photos-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}