Noble Woods Park

Noble Woods Park is a wooded city park in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located on approximately 40acre along Rock Creek, the nature park with wetlands and forests is situated between West Baseline Road on the north and Southwest Borwick Road to the south near the Orenco neighborhood. The city acquired the land for the park in 1992 and opened the park in the eastern section of the city in 1998. Noble Woods has two entrances, a picnic area, and hiking trails.HistoryIn 1991, the city of Hillsboro asked voters to approve a bond which would pay for the purchase of nearly 40acre of woodland and wetland along Rock Creek east of the city from Charlie Noble. The bond measure failed on election day, and instead local residents devised an alternative funding plan: 200 people each pledged $500 down followed by annual payments of $300 each for five years, plus $50,000 in donations from the Hillsboro Rotary Club and Baker Rock Resources to be matched by the city government. Noble also agreed to sell the land on a five-year contract for $881,000 for use as a park, a discount from the assessed value of $1 million. The city purchased the land in 1992.After acquiring the park land, the city used some funds from Metro’s open spaces bond measure to construct infrastructure at the site in 1997. In 1997, the city paid to add an overlook of Rock Creek, built at a cost of $44,200. The city opened the park on Earth Day in 1998. In June 2006, volunteer work groups removed the non-native English ivy from parts of the park. Another group, part of SOLV, worked to remove more ivy at Noble Woods in April 2008.