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Park Information
All Brookings City Parks are day use only. Pet
owners are require to clean up after their animals.
Park Reservations
Brookings City Parks (or areas within the parks) can be reserved.
Click here for information.
Other City Parks
Azalea Park
Bud Cross Park
Chetco
Point Park
Easy Manor Park
Stout
Park
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Bankus
Fountain
Beauty
in the Heart of the City
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Bankus Fountain is
located on the north side of Chetco Avenue (Hwy 101) at Fifth Street
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Bankus Fountain
invites visitors and residents to relax and sit a spell. |
| Planted with azaleas, rhododendrons,
and flowerings trees the park honors Elmer Bankus, a leading force in
early Brookings development. |
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Gently flowing water
cascades into ever enlarging pools. |
| For 37
years Elmer Bankus was Brookings most prominent businessman, land
developer, and philanthropist. His obituary in the Curry Coastal Pilot
in 1973 notes that he was one of the pioneer land developers of the
City of Brookings and laid out a number of water mains, streets and
land tracts within the area. (Except from Then
Till Now in Brookings-Harbor, A Social History of the Chetco Community
Area) |
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