Beaverton � Oregon�s City of Parks and Greener

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Beaverton is a bustling community that is part of the Portland-Vancouver, Oregon-Washington metropolitan area located in Washington County. It sits near the Williamette and Columbia Rivers and derived its name from an old Indian settlement called Chakeipi – Place of the Beaver – that its early settlers translated as Beaver Dam until it was eventually changed to Beaverton. The farming community’s growth was stimulated by a railroad built in 1868. In the year 1893, the City of Beaverton was incorporated with an initial population of only 400 residents. Beaverton is the fifth largest city in Oregon and the largest incorporated city of Washington County.

Originally, the Tualatin Valley and what is now the Beaverton area is the ancestral domain of Native American Indians who call themselves the Atfalatis. They are a hunter-gatherer tribe that rely more on plants than animals for their food, clothing materials, and houses. White settlers however mispronounced the name as Tualatin.

Visitors to Beaverton are welcome to play in its highly rated golf courses and experience diverse recreational activities such as outdoor summer concerts, art galleries, museums, a remarkable and extraordinary farmers market, award-winning wineries, hot air ballooning, county fairs and festivals. The community also offers natural, historic and scenic day trips, waterskiing, camping, hiking and fishing activities to locals and tourists. There are adequate and well-maintained public swimming pools, tennis courts, and softball fields available for the use of residents and visitors alike.

Beaverton’s Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District provides access to a 30-mile network of hiking trails and a 25-mile bike path network throughout the Beaverton area.

Beaverton residents have regular access to a wide range of public services and amenities including Portland’s metropolitan west side’s biggest shopping district and numerous churches for the various religions of people who live in the area. Even more remarkable about Beaverton is the vast expanse of Green Space its residents are provided with. The city has more than 100 parks with a combined area of more than 1,000 acres. Every home in Beaverton is located within half a mile of a park at the most.

Residents are able to enjoy great outdoor living to the maximum all year round - rolling hills, rivers, verdant forests, wetlands, ski slopes and beaches are all barely an hour's drive from the city.

One event visitors would not like to miss is the weekly Beaverton Farmers Market which showcases the area’s most excellent agricultural products delivered in the morning right after harvest or picking and sold by the growers themselves. Approximately 90 to 100 vegetable and fruit growers, gather every Saturday to sell their produce in a carnival-style market environment that includes live music. Beaverton residents and their neighbors who prefer an old-fashioned farmer’s market experience has made the weekend market a habit. It has become an institution, a place to shop and have a taste from the wealth of the produce, artisan foods, plants and flowers grown in the rich and fertile soils of the Pacific Northwest.