Canemah Neighborhood Children's Park

This park sits on the site of Canemah's first public school, built in 1870 on a bluff above the Willamette.

"Canemah" derives from a Chinook word for canoe place, reflecting the deep-water harbor below Willamette Falls that made this one of the region's major indigenous canoe landings before settlers converted it into a riverboat-building hub through the 1850s–1870s.

Oregon City annexed Canemah in 1928, but the neighborhood has remained distinct. When the school was no longer needed, a volunteer-built park was established on the bluff in 1949.

It sits at the edge of Metro's Canemah Bluff natural area, with the historic district's old bungalows and Craftsman homes below.