Alton Baker Park

Alton Baker Park is located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, near Autzen Stadium. In June 1967, it was dedicated to Alton F. Baker Sr., the eleventh owner (60 years after it was founded) of Eugene's The Guard newspaper (later The Register-Guard). It features duck ponds, bicycle trails, a dog park and a disc golf course, and directly touches the Ferry Street Bridge across the Willamette River.

Other amenities include the Cuthbert Amphitheater, a venue for outdoor musical and drama performances. The amphitheater is named for Fred Cuthbert, the park's designer.

Whilamut Natural Area

The less developed, eastern part of Alton Baker Park is known as the Wilhamut Natural Area and links to Springfield's Eastgate Woodlands via bicycle paths and open space. "Wilhamut" is a Kalapuya word that means "where the river ripples and runs fast". A ceremony to rename the former East Alton Baker Park took place on September 7, 2002 and included a traditional Kalapuya naming ceremony.

Nobel Peace Park In April, 2013, the Nobel Peace Laureate Project opened a one-acre parcel inside Alton Baker Park to celebrate the United States recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The park within a park is the first Nobel Peace Park in the United States.

The prize recipients honored in the park are

Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 Elihu Root, 1912 Woodrow Wilson, 1919 Charles G. Dawes, 1925 Frank B. Kellogg, 1929 Jane Addams, 1931 Nicholas Murray Butler, 1931 Cordell Hull, 1945 Emily Greene Balch, 1946 John Raleigh Mott, 1946 American Friends Service Committee, 1947 Ralph Bunche, 1950 George Catlett Marshall, 1953 Linus Carl Pauling, 1962 Martin Luther King Jr., 1964 Norman E. Borlaug, 1970 Henry Kissinger, 1973 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1985 Elie Wiesel, 1986 Jody Williams, 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1997 Jimmy Carter, 2002 Al Gore, 2007 Barack Obama, 2009

Alton Baker Park

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