The Forest Grove Military & Veterans Tribute Park is envisioned as more than a traditional memorial. It will be a welcoming community space that honors service, preserves stories, encourages learning, and recognizes the many ways service continues after military duty ends.
The Tribute Park will recognize veterans and currently serving military members while also acknowledging the families, supporters, and community members whose lives and contributions are part of the larger story of service.
Every part of the planning process is grounded in three commitments:
Recognize those who served, those who continue to serve, and those who support them.
Create opportunities for gathering, education, conversation, reflection, and belonging.
Develop an accessible and enduring community resource that can grow with Forest Grove for generations.
Community feedback will be considered alongside accessibility, site conditions, environmental stewardship, programming opportunities, long-term maintenance, City planning requirements, and available resources.
The concepts shown are part of an ongoing community-guided planning process. Survey participation does not constitute a formal vote, and the most frequently selected response will not automatically determine the final outcome. Every response will help identify community priorities and inform the next stage of planning.
The Tribute Park is still being shaped—and community participation is an essential part of that process.
We are currently evaluating two potential locations and two preliminary design concepts. No final decision has been made about the site or the design.
Your feedback will help us understand what the community values, how people hope to experience the park, and which opportunities should guide its continued development.
What would make the Tribute Park meaningful to you, your family, and future generations?
Please review the locations and concepts below, then share your perspective through the community survey by clicking on the link or using the QR Code.
Lincoln Park offers visibility, flexibility, and opportunities to create a new community destination. The location could support educational features, ceremonies, public programming, gathering spaces, and future expansion.
Opportunities being explored include:
Thatcher Park offers an established recreational setting with existing amenities and regular community activity. A Tribute Park at this location could complement current park uses while adding places for reflection, gathering, and learning.
Opportunities being explored include:
These concepts are preliminary and are intended to help the community explore what the Tribute Park could become.
Common Ground emphasizes connection, shared experiences, education, and flexibility.
The concept creates a welcoming place where people can gather for ceremonies, community programs, conversations, and everyday visits. Its adaptable design could support additional educational features and recognition opportunities as the Tribute Park grows.
Common Ground offers:
Garden of Light emphasizes remembrance, reflection, and quiet connection.
The concept creates a contemplative landscape where light, plantings, pathways, and meaningful design elements work together to honor service. It provides visitors with a peaceful place to pause, remember, learn, and reflect.
Garden of Light offers:
Military service does not begin or end at a single moment.
The Tribute Park is being designed to represent a broader Journey of Service:
Call to Serve • Service and Sacrifice • Homecoming • Continuing Service • Remembrance and Reflection • Legacy
This journey recognizes that people leave their communities to serve and return with experiences, leadership, skills, and a continuing commitment that strengthen the communities they helped protect.
The Tribute Park will help preserve these stories and make them accessible to future generations.
The Forest Grove Military & Veterans Tribute Park is being developed through collaboration among veterans, military-affiliated individuals and families, community members, local organizations, project partners, and the City of Forest Grove.
The Forest Grove Veteran Action Network is leading the community-guided planning process, with the Community, Military, and Veteran Alliance of Oregon providing nonprofit partnership, community engagement, communications, and project support.
Together, these partners are working to ensure that the Tribute Park reflects Forest Grove, honors the many dimensions of service, and becomes an enduring community asset.
Forest Grove Military & Veterans Tribute Park
Honor Service. Strengthen Community. Build a Legacy for Future Generations.
Contact Us for More Info! Email: fgveteranactionnetwork@gmail.com
Hosted in partnership with the Community, Military, and Veteran Alliance of Oregon
Email: info@cmvalliance.org
