PORTLAND, Ore. — If you're searching for a wide open space to bring your picnic basket, there's no point heading to Mill Ends Park. It's only 2 feet wide.
At 452 square inches, Mill Ends is the smallest park in the world. It was created to offer a base for a light pole on busy Front Avenue. The pole never came, but the weeds did.
A few years ago, journalist Dick Fagan got tired of gazing down from the old Oregon Journal building to the weedy median. He planted some flowers and Mill Ends Park was born.
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It became an official city park in 1976.