Montavilla Atlas

Recreational Water & Coverage Gaps

Portland Parks & Recreation water-play facilities and their walksheds, showing how far Montavilla families are from free water play on a hot day.

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Key findings

Zero splash pads inside Montavilla — the neighborhood falls entirely within a water-play coverage gap.
The nearest splash pad is Gateway Discovery Park, 1.7 miles east.
The only water facility inside Montavilla is Montavilla Pool (seasonal, outdoor, fee-based).
Two small wading pools exist (Montavilla Park and Normandale Park).
A splash pad near 7700 SE Stark would be the first free, non-seasonal water play in the neighborhood.

Data & method

Dataset	Source	Date	License
PP&R facilities	Portland ArcGIS (Park Search, Water Features)	2026-06-03	Open data
Splash pads & pools	portland.gov/parks official lists	2026-06-03	Public info

Method:

Compiled the official PP&R splash-pad and pool lists, geocoded the facilities, and mapped 0.5-mile walksheds to visualize the coverage gap over Montavilla.

Projection (CRS): EPSG:4326 (WGS84)

Tools: Python / geopandas / matplotlib

Confidence

HIGH for facility locations (official PP&R data). APPROXIMATE for walksheds, which use a 0.5-mile straight-line radius rather than street-network distance.