{"id":282182,"date":"2025-11-09T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:38:10","slug":"former-golf-course-turned-park-in-north-eugene-nears-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282182\/","title":{"rendered":"Former golf course turned park in north Eugene nears opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25 &#8211; acre park that was once River Ridge Golf Course will soon open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A news release from the City of Eugene said Willow Bend Park will open to the public later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Some redevelopment of the park has been completed, including the addition of paved parking, a half-basketball court, walking paths and pedestrian access to the Willamette River.<\/p>\n<p>The release said that any future development on the land west of Delta Road will include an opportunity for community input and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>River Ridge Golf Course closed in late 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klcc.org\/nature\/2022-04-24\/eugene-turns-an-old-golf-course-into-a-neighborhood-park\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The city bought the land<\/a> in April 2022 for redevelopment.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A map showing the location of Willow Bend Park\"  width=\"880\" height=\"560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762731490_335_\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Eugene Parks and Open Spaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25 &#8211; acre park that was once River Ridge Golf Course will soon open to the public.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-282182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}