Spraygrounds

Hillsboro's spraygrounds offer a variety of features from jets to fountains for people of all ages to cool off and enjoy. Explore them all!

Spraygrounds are generally open:

• Late May to mid-September
• Mid-morning to late evening

Schedules vary and availability may be impacted by maintenance and repair.

2025 Season Update

All spraygrounds and water play features are off for the season. 

The Civic Center fountain will continue to run on Saturday mornings through the end of the Hillsboro Farmers' Market season on October 26.

Butternut Creek Park

(7830 SE Deline Street)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 9 am to 8 pm
• Fresh water

Butternut Creek Park is located in South Hillsboro. Park amenities include a basketball court, playground, sprayground, picnic shelter, and picnic areas.

Tom Hughes Civic Center Fountains

150 E Main Street

North Fountain

• Status: Open through October 26, 2025
• Hours: 10 am to 1 pm
• Treated recycled water

South Fountain

• Status: Permanently Closed

The Civic Center fountains are a popular place to play any day but especially during the Saturday Farmers Market and Tuesday Night Market. Crews are working to open them as soon as possible. 

Hidden Creek Park East 

300 NE 53rd Avenue

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 10 am to 8 pm
• Treated recycled water

The sprayground at Hidden Creek Park East (formerly 53rd Avenue Community Park) features geysers, spray elements, and a curved seating wall. 

Jerry Willey Plaza at Orenco Station

943 NE Orenco Station Loop

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 10 am to 8 pm
• Fresh water

A small water feature perfect for toddlers and young children. Water flows out of the rock retaining wall and up from small sprayers in the plaza.

Magnolia Park 

(1810 NW 192nd Avenue)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 9 am to 8 pm
• Treated recycled water

Magnolia Park's sprayground is located within easy viewing of the picnic shelter and picnic area. The sprayground is user-activated (look for the button nearby!).

Walnut Street Park 

(1717 SE Walnut Street)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 9 am to 8 pm
• Fresh water

The sprayground at Walnut Street Park features brightly colored above ground elements that spray and mist that are user activated (look for the button nearby!). The sprayground is located between the playground and pavilion.

Water Play

These amenities may not spray, but they trickle and flow! Play with sand, rocks, stones, sticks, and more at three different Hillsboro parks. 

Orenco Woods Nature Park

 (7100 NE Birch Street)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: 9 am to 8 pm

Old fashioned water pumps produce water that flows down a man-made creek into a sandy area. There is also a wheel that can be turned to flow water into the creek.

Hidden Creek Park West

(225 NE 53rd Avenue)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: dawn to dusk

A stream and basin with sand and rock make this park feature popular among children for creative and hands-on play. 

Shute Park

 (750 NE 8th Avenue)

• Status: Closed
• Hours: dawn to dusk

The water play area that is triggered with the press of a button. Water gently flows down a faux rock formation into a large sand area.