Hayhurst is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, on the border with (and in some areas slightly extending into) Washington County

Washington County, Oregon

- Major highways :* Interstate 5* Interstate 205* U.S. Route 26* Oregon Route 6* Oregon Route 8* Oregon Route 10* Oregon Route 47* Oregon Route 99W* Oregon Route 210* Oregon Route 217* Oregon Route 219-Demographics:...

. It borders Raleigh Hills

Raleigh Hills, Oregon

Raleigh Hills is a census-designated place and neighborhood within the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It is located in the southwest hills in Washington County, with Beaverton to the west, West Slope to the north, and Progress and Garden Home to the south...

 and Beaverton

Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley.As of the 2010 census, the population is 90,267. This makes it the second-largest city in the county and Oregon's sixth-largest city...

 (on the west), and the Portland neighborhoods of Bridlemile

Bridlemile, Portland, Oregon

Bridlemile is a Southwest Portland, Oregon neighborhood in the West Hills. The Portland city boundary runs through the neighborhood such that the southern part of the neighborhood is within Portland proper, but the northern portion is unincorporated Multnomah County...

 (on the north), Hillsdale

Hillsdale, Portland, Oregon

The Hillsdale district is a neighborhood in the southwest section of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is centered around the Hillsdale retail and business area, a series of strip malls on SW Capitol Highway between SW Sunset Boulevard and SW Bertha Boulevard...

 (on the east), and Maplewood

Maplewood, Portland, Oregon

Maplewood is a suburban neighborhood in Southwest Portland, Oregon, United States.-Location:Maplewood is on Portland's western border with Garden Home, and on Multnomah County's western border with Washington County. The neighborhood is defined as the area west of SW 45th Ave...

 and Multnomah (on the south).

The community of Vermont Hills lies in the southwestern part of the neighborhood (45.4775°N 122.7270°W).

In the western part of the neighborhood is Alpenrose Dairy

Alpenrose Dairy

Alpenrose Dairy is a dairy company located in the Hayhurst neighborhood of southwest Portland, Oregon since 1916. It has been in the Cadonau family for several generations and was named after the alpine rose by the Swiss-born wife and early co-owner of the dairy.The grounds of the dairy...

 (1916), a community institution featuring a velodrome

Velodrome

A velodrome is an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 park, and replica western frontier

Frontier Thesis

The Frontier Thesis, also referred to as the Turner Thesis, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the origin of the distinctive egalitarian, democratic, aggressive, and innovative features of the American character has been the American frontier experience...

town ("Dairyville").

Pendleton Park (1955) is a green space with a playground, a baseball diamond, the Vermont Hills Community Garden, and an 8-foot rabbit entitled Vincent, Waiting for Alice. It is adjacent to Hayhurst Elementary School.

External links

• Guide to Hayhurst Neighborhood (PortlandNeighborhood.com)