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Dick Fagan named it Mill Ends Park and gave it the title, "world's smallest." "He spruced it up with a couple rose bushes, a few marigolds around," Pat Fagan said.
The idea for the Japanese park came after a town official visited the U.S. and saw Mill Ends Park. Feeling inspired, Nagaizumi Town created its own version in 1988 to make use of free space along ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - It is official, Mill Ends Park has officially been dethroned. According to Guinness World Records, ...
Mill Ends Park, which measures just 452 square inches, was officially recognized as the tiniest in the world by Guinness World Records in 1971. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.
A Charlie Brown occupation: Mill Ends Park, the world's smallest city park at 2 feet in diameter, shows its holiday colors Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 -- on the tree that was stolen within the past week.
Today, Mill Ends Park remains a popular place for pictures and even picnics, according to Hill. It was even one of the downtown parks taken over by Occupy Portland in 2011.
Oregon: At 452 square inches, the world's smallest park fills a 2-foot circle meant for a light pole. In the same city is 6,000-acre Forest Park, the largest urban forest in the country.
Mill Ends Park, the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, 452-square-inch greenspace located in the median strip of Southwest Naito Parkway at Taylor Street, is always a fun Portland quirk to point out to ...
Mill Ends Park along SW Naito Parkway in downtown, Oregon, pictured on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Sean Meagher/The Oregonian ...
Portland Parks & Recreation shared a photo of Mill Ends Park and its fancy new addition. Workers also planted miniature roses to mark the occasion. The beloved tiny park, once described as the ...