Montavilla Community Center & Pool

This place was not well planned out when they built it!
The biggest problem is that this us a huge busy park. They have team sports like softball and soccer, plus a very popular swimming pool and recreation center. Yet the tiny little parking lot only has maybe 25 spaces. The location is the (very busy) corner of NE 82^nd/​Glisan. Obviously there’s no parking allowed on 82^nd and there’s no parking allowed on Glisan between 7am-​6pm. Crazy!!!
So, if you’re lucky enough to find parking, this is a decent park, pool and rec center. The gym is huge and there lots of outdoor play equipment for kids.

This park is huge! And it’s in the middle of the Flats (okay, it’s really in the middle of Montavilla)! And it’s right next door to the Biblical Seminary!
Besides the obvious – the community center, the rentable space, and the outdoor swimming pool – this is an enormous and green park that is awesome for huge groups.
For example, tonight there were hoards of dudes running around without their shirts on holding hands. From what I gathered, they were practicing rugby… or something.
And it’s a pretty sweet venue for competitive kickball league games. Even with a few rugby scrums, there was still plenty of room for the outfielders to catch those ubiquitous fly-​balls (those bunts were baaaad!).
My only gripe (s)? Well, there is hardly any parking. At all. And this was at 8:30 p.m. So we had to drive around the block to park in the residential area. And by «around the block,» I mean more like 16 blocks away; what looked like around the block was actually around the bible college. Then by the time we walk to the field’s fence, we realize that not only are there no entrances (the one door was chain-​locked), but the tall fences have barbed wire on top. What were they protecting the park people from? Holy water?
Anyway, so we had to walk around the entire circumference of the field (and it’s a big park), until we get back to 82^nd, and walk all the way to the back of the field where the diamond was.
People!
Get more accessible parking!
My blisters say no.