Pier Park

This park is awesome! i like taking my dogs here. long walks through the trees and around town. they have the best fenced in dog park. and a rad skatepark!

This course is gorgeous and fun to play, challenging to avoid obstacles. I give it few stars simply because every time we’ve come here we’ve been hampered by the sloooooow play of others. It is really out of control. Weekdays, weekends, doesn’t seem to matter. Sloooooooooow. So if you are super slow, go for it. I’m just an average player, it’s nothing to do with skill. It has to do with lack of courtesy.

One of my favorite disc golf parks, lots of tree shade but not to crowded to play if your amateur like me! Skate park, big kid playground, baseball, basketball, big happy trees, bring your green and readiness for a good time.

Huge park up by St. Johns with 18 hole disc golf, basketball courts, tennis courts, baseball field, playground, basically anything you can want in a park. I wish it was closer to NE Portland where I live, but worth the drive for an afternoon of disc golf with friends!

pretty cool say there wih bf while he disk golfs

Nice green space that has a disc golf course. It’s a great place to spend a sunny day.

simply put. this has been the best course I’ve played at.
holes are a little confusing to find at times, think we missed two. besides that, I can’t wait to play again.

Grew up a block away from this park. Before, you wouldn’t catch anyone in there after dark in there. Since I’ve been gone, the park and the neighborhood has really changed for the better. I’m impressed and I’m very happy.

Last winter I took up disc golfing and have been totally hooked ever since. I’ve been averaging about one dilf session a week since then, most of which has been at Pier Park. A quick 15 minute drive from my home and I’m surrounded by towering Sequoias and Doug Firs. While Portland is known for its amazing parks, Pier really takes the cake.
The dilf course here is truly top notch. You’ve got everything from wide open fairways to tight tree filled tunnel shots. There’s tricky uphill drives, big downhill power drives, and a couple hard doglegs. All the baskets have been recently replaced and are a really nice dayglow green. Super easy to spot. Teepads are all nice concrete, but unfortunately the signs always seem to be missing from most of them. Because of this some of the holes can be difficult to navigate, so if it’s your first time I would absolutely bring a map. Make sure you’ve got the right one, as the course changes drastically between summer and winter layouts.
Parking at Pier is usually pretty good. Next to the first hole of the dilf course there is always ample street parking. On a sunny weekend day when it seems like everybody and their mother is dilfing you may have to walk a bit, but it’s never that bad.
The main drawback of the proximity of Pier to central Portland is that it can get super crowded on those nice days. Throw a couple extra well concealed beers in your dilf bag and be prepared to do a bit of waiting to tee up.
While most of my time is spent wandering through the forest hucking plastic into trees, there’s an awesome skate park, multiple soccer and baseball fields, ample picnicking areas, tennis and basketball courts, playgrounds, water play areas, and tons of walking paths. There’s seriously something in this park for everyone young and old.

I feel so #blessed to live so close to Pier Park. I recently got into disc golf (dilf) and this park offers an amazing course just minutes from my house. I never knew how good I had it until I went down to Los Angeles this winter and saw the sad state of their dilf courses. This park offers a great 18 hole course that is suitable for people at any stage of their dilf game. It’s a great beginner course because it is difficult to lose a disc since the undergrowth is kept in check. It’s also great for intermediates and experts because some holes have long drives and other have trees causing them to be quite technical.
The park offers several other amenities and seems to have something for just about everyone. There’s a skate park at one end for the youngins and some tennis courts that I almost never see being used. There are also soccer and baseball areas if that’s your bag. I see people jogging, biking, and walking their animals quite frequently and the park is large enough to allow this without getting onto the dilf course or being hit by an errant disc.
My one gripe with the park is the upkeep. There is some trash in the park. Some of it is definitely left by lowlife dilfers that are drinking as they play. I don’t mind the drinking, but come on, there are ample trash cans. Some of it is caused by the transient population that makes the park their home. Also the city is slow to clear fallen branches after wind storms. Hole three still has a giant branch and fallen tree right in the middle of it. Finally, why the hell does the city close the bathrooms during the winter when it’s definitely open to dilfing year round. Now I have to use a tree like a wild animal.
All in all, Pier Park is definitely my favorite place to #dilf and I’ve even considered moving to St Johns for it.

Coming from the Midwest where I disc golfed (dilfed) with some frequency, I have to say that having a course so lush, beautiful, and well laid out as Pier Park so close to Portland is just amazing. It puts the courses I dilfed at back home to shame, and after having dilfed at some of the top rated dilf courses in a 45 mile radius of PDX, I still think that this may be my favorite or at least top 3.
Located in St Johns, Pier Park is a quick drive or bus ride from downtown Portland. The course starts of fairly unassuming, with a few holes that are through some open fields that border the forest. Once you get done with hole 2 and head to 3, you really start to get into some beautiful, scenic forest with well thought out, challenging holes of all distances and layouts. Some of the holes can be quite frustrating, with dense clusters of douglas fir trees forming a seemingly impenetrable barrier between the tee pad and the basket. Even when the course can be the most frustrating, it is still a treat to be dilfing in such beautiful surroundings.
The course is 18 holes, and there are winter and summer hole placements so if it is your first time playing it is probably worth it to bring a map unless you are going with someone who knows the course layout. Being the closest and highest quality course close to Portland, it can definitely get crowded during the summer and on nice days throughout the year. If you aren’t having to wait for other groups, budget about 2 — 2 ½ hours to play through all 18. I recently went (unknowingly) during a tournament and it took closer to 3 — 3 ½ hrs to finish

Some days you just have to rise above it all. Pier Park is the place I come to do that. It would be a crime if I didn’t because an entrance to the park is literally a minute’s walk from my front door (well maybe more if I stop and talk to somebody). I appreciate all there is to do (swimming, skateboarding, dog park, disk golf), but the sense of instant calm is where it’s at for me. The trees are a mix of cedar and fir and so tall and thick that if it’s raining elsewhere, I often don’t feel the rain here (trees — the original umbrellas). They were also were kind enough to shed some of their branches for my Christmas greenery.
Others have mentioned the Blair Witch Project qualities of the park, which I suppose is why the TV series, Grimm, is filmed here. And you know what? Pier Park hasn’t been spoiled by Hollywood; in fact, I’d like to think Pier Park’s good solid Portland values have rubbed off on Hollywood.
So, how ever you choose to enjoy it, I hope you get a chance to visit Pier Park and find out what it means to you.

Let me start by saying this, when I walk here at night, it feels like the Blair Witch Project. I may be Cold and Hungry… and a little scared but at least there is no centuries old witxh chasing me… I think?
Honestly, this is really a very nice basic park. The greens are lush and the pathways are fairly well defined. People respect the park so I have not seen any litter or dog waste left laying around.
Most of the activity, during the day /​evening, centers around Disk Golf. I haven’t played but I here it is a lot of fun and this is the place to be. I might have to try it one day. There is also a pool but I am not sure of what the deal is there. This is a nice place to walk or just hang out. Not a bad way to kill some time and maybe go for a stroll.

Great Skatepark and Baseball diamonds… what else do you need?

Pier Park, where is your pier? I do not appreciate such deceit! You made me google your name and discover that you are in fact named after Stanhope S. Pier, mayor of Portland in 1931.
Despite the lack of pier, this park is one of my favorites due to its nationally renowned disc golf course. When playing this course it feels like you’re hiking through a forest from Lord of the Rings. (I even spotted a few people LARPing amongst the trees). There are also many hills to walk up and down so its a great way to get in some pseudo-​exercise and feel kinda good about yourself while pounding beers.
I found that it can get busier on the weekends but the course is so large that you get spread out easily and never feel crowded. That being said it’s very easy to get lost between tees and at those times it really does feel like you’re trekking through Middle Earth. Luckily, everyone I’ve come across here has been incredibly friendly and helpful and has pointed me in the right direction.
Pier park: the perfect place for the weekend frolfer, pro, and apparently hardcore LARPer.

Really great frisbee golf park. Shades, grass, not to much mud. Nice walking path that winds through park. open softball fields to frolic in. very nice park!

The skatepark here is great for being out in the middle-​of-​nowhere-​corner-​of-​st-​johns. like it has a super deel bowl that only a few of the guys can skate, then there is a medium, average sized small bowl, and then there is a little bowl. Then they have some rails and crap… you can google the photos.
I don’t skate at skate parks because I simply don’t know how to. I only can carve hills and surf.
I went here cause I needed to take some interesting photos for my photography class. I went up to the guys and asked them if I could take photos of them, and they said yes. (Always ask). I was there for like 30 minutes, and a few of the guys were super chill and we were talkin’ and stuff. They said that you couldn’t go do what I did (ask to take photos) at the burnside park cause it’s more localized there… understandable.
In other words, nice crowd here if you’re a chill, nonjudgmental person. But I did tell them I’m from Hawai’i and I surf (and I look like a surfer), so that did give me a leg up.
I don’t recommend bringing your kids here when all the guys are skating. They don’t really care about little kids. This mom brought her daughter who was teaching herself how to skate in bowls, and it was incredibly inspiring and cute, but the guys were just skating all over the place and not really paying attention to her, in fact, one of the guys sped right by her really fast… so I just wouldn’t bring your children here when the guys are all over the place skating. You might want to start your child off at a smaller skatepark.

I’ve visited this park a couple times for one reason: disc golf. There are many amenities including a softball field, tennis courts, picnic tables and a playground but I came for the disc.
There’s a pleasant little 18-​hole course tucked inside this park. It winds through the wooded areas and reminds me a lot of the course in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. It’s reasonably challenging but not overly easy either — very accessible to a wide range of skill levels. There’s a healthy variety of hole layouts although quite a few are just straight, flat shots through some trees. Nevertheless, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the 2 rounds I’ve played here and would highly recommend this park to anyone exploring Portland disc golf courses.

A suitable park for fracturing your arm during softball.
Great, Large Park just outside of St. John’s.
I don’t like how the disc golf is set up near the bathroom —-adjacentcy to softball pee’rs.

If you love the park you may want to come out today (March 3) to learn more about secret plans to build a road through the park and possibly cut down several of the giant Sequoias to make room of it. More information can be had here: