08/16/2026
We're down to the last hours to collect petition signatures!
The support to save Rilee Park as a protected Heritage Park has been heartwarming. Determined volunteers have devoted long days to knocking on doors and manning petition sites. Qualifying for voter approval in November is one sure way to preserve this beautiful park.
If the signatures meet the quota, Rilee Park, a century farm, will be on the November ballot. With voter approval, it would be forever protected as its donors intended: foot traffic only on the pristine trails, and its agricultural land continuing to be farmed. No future sales. No land use changes. When people donate their land with specifications, it should be honored!
Do note: only Newberg and Dundee citizens may sign. If you have friends and/or relatives in those cities, please urge them to visit the petition sites below. We've found many locals were unaware this little paradise exists. Three members of the Chehalem Park & Recreation Board would like to keep it that way. They want to make it a mountain bike mecca.
Let's do all we can to make sure Rilee Park remains a quiet, protected Heritage Park, not the next mountain bike destination, or that its land use is changed. We need signatures so it can be on the November ballot!
