MAPLEWOOD, PORTLAND, OREGON

'Maplewood' is a suburban neighborhood in Southwest Portland, Oregon, United States.

Contents

Location

Business

Neighborhood attractions

Worship

Education

Neighborhood association

References

External links

Location

Maplewood is on Portland's western border with Garden Home, and on Multnomah County's western border with Washington County. (Small portions of the neighborhood, and thus the city of Portland, extend into Washington County.) The neighborhood is defined as the area west of SW 45th Ave. to the city limit (at approximately SW 66th Ave.), between SW Vermont St. (the northern edge), and SW Multnomah Blvd. (the southern edge). The neighborhood is in a hilly area, with a creek running through the neighborhood, which includes a green space. Portland's grid street system fails in this neighborhood because of the topography. Most of the streets conform to the grid, but with many dead ends. There is also the namesake Maplewood Rd. that is a curving road that starts at the intersection with SW 45th Ave. and SW Multnomah Blvd., and curves until it becomes SW 52nd Ave. near Maplewood Elementary School. The Ashcreek neighborhood borders to the South, Hayhurst to the north, and Multnomah to the east, and Garden Home-Whitford CDP in unincorporated Washington County to the west.

Business

Maplewood is almost exclusively a residential neighborhood, with its only commercial businesses along its outer edge.

Neighborhood attractions

The well-hidden April Hill park contains a play structure, a soccer field, and a few trails leading to Woods Creek. Across 45th Ave from the neighborhood on its Northern corner is Gabriel Park and the Southwest Community Center. Just outside the neighborhood's Western edge is the Garden Home Recreation Center. The Alpenrose Dairy is just to the North of the neighborhood, down Shattuck Rd.

Worship

The only church accessible from within the boundaries of the neighborhood is West Hills Friends Church(a Quaker church). Accessible from the border streets of Vermont or 45th Ave are St. Luke Lutheran Church (ELCA) and St. John Fisher Catholic Church. On the border street of 45th Ave itself, but inside the boundary, is Multnomah Presbyterian Church.

Education

Inside the neighborhood is Maplewood Elementary School, a K-5 school in the Portland Public Schools district. St. John Fisher, St. Luke, and the West Hills Friends churches all have parochial schools serving various grade levels.
The Maplewood neighborhood feeds students into Robert Gray Middle School (grades 6-8,) and Wilson High School (grades 9-12,) both outside the neighborhood.

Neighborhood association

Maplewood has a small but active neighborhood association.

References

External links

★ Maplewood Neighborhood Association

★ Gabriel Park

★ PortlandConnected - A community site, including information about Portland neighborhoods, schools, restaurants, arts and culture