More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Ends_Park

That park is shit. The one in Japan even has a bench

The one in Nagaizumi didn't find it necessary to call theirs a park until someone from the city visited Portland. Or so local embittered Portland residents say.

In 1948 the site that would become Mill Ends Park was intended to be the site for a light pole. When the pole failed to appear and weeds sprouted in the opening, Dick Fagan, a columnist for *[The Oregon Journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/The_Oregon_Journal "The Oregon Journal")*, planted flowers in the hole and named it after his column in the paper, "Mill Ends" (a reference to leftover irregular pieces of wood at lumber mills).

Thanks Dick Fagan!

Looks like a lovely spot to have an eternal campfire.

The sign is half the park.

It's a record!

I wanna see it at Xmas. I’ll bet it’s lit.

Leslie Knope would be proud.

Some bastards destroyed the tree 😑

When the pole failed to appear

What a weird way to say “when the city dropped the ball and failed to install proper safety lighting.” The pole “failing to appear” makes it sound like it was just supposed to be conjured out of the ether, all by itself.

the gnomes are pleased with this offering.

Public or private?

Tricky stealth camp

Most of city administration is low level magic, they just don't talk about it much. How do they fit thousands of trash cans worth of trash into one truck? Teleportation, straight to the slums of Ghana. You really think bridges, huge chunks of concrete and steel, just balance naturally like that without collapsing? Levitation. All the city clerk's pens glow when ratepayers are near.

No, it's a park. A record plays music.

You really think bridges, [...]

well now i don't

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum...