Peninsula Park's Sunken Rose Garden is home to more than 8,800 different kinds of roses that begin blooming in May and continue until fall. Open dawn to dusk with free admission.
Peninsula Park is one of the foremost examples of a formally designed neighborhood park, typical of the early 1900s. It includes the city's first public rose garden and the city's first community center, a historically designed bandstand, and one of Portland's oldest playgrounds.
The official Portland rose, named Mme. Caroline Testout, is maintained in the garden. Once planted by the thousands along the streets of Portland, this rose earned Portland the name "City of Roses."
Gardens are open to the public throughout Oregon.
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