Frenchman's Bar Park

Frenchman’s Bar Park was indeed named after a French sailor who jumped ship and purchased this land.  This fairly new park is a hot spot for summer crowds, with volleyball courts, fishing and over a mile of sandy beach. 

Frenchman's Bar is almost directly across from the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers and sits adjacent to a large tract of natural wetlands.  Today, Frenchman's Bar Park is 152 acres of sandy beach, forested uplands, open pastures and more than two miles of shore land.  It includes Frenchman's Bar Trail, a 48-acre open space corridor that connects Vancouver Lake to the river via the Columbia River Renaissance Trail. Interpretive signs describe the history of this area that Meriwether Lewis described in his journal.

For more information, visit Frenchman's Bar Park.