Editing McMinnville, Oregon (section)

==Parks and recreation==
McMinnville Community Center is headquarters for the McMinnville Parks and Recreation Department, which administers 18 parks throughout the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov/parksrec|title=Parks and Recreation|website=Mcminnville Oregon|language=en|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref> The largest city park is the 100-acre sports field complex and community park named after a longtime city manager Joe Dancer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Joe Dancer Park|url=http://www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov/parksrec/page/joe-dancer-park|access-date=2017-04-27|website=Mcminnville Oregon|language=en}}</ref> The city of McMinnville administers youth sports leagues in both baseball and basketball, along with many other competitive sports.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Parks and Recreation {{!}} McMinnville Oregon|url=https://www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov/parksrec|access-date=2021-04-24|website=www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov}}</ref>

For instance, Joe Dancer Park has a dozen baseball and softball fields. The park also features soccer fields, playground equipment, and the Drew Ottley Memorial [[Skate Park]]. Discovery Meadows Community Park also has a skate park, along with baseball and softball fields. This 22-acre community park has picnic shelters (available to rent), playgrounds, play structure w/towers, climbing walls, climbing boulders, water features, basketball courts, and walking pathways (1 mile paved) and trails (.95 mile soft) throughout.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Discovery Meadows Community Park {{!}} McMinnville Oregon|url=https://www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov/parksrec/page/discovery-meadows-community-park|access-date=2021-04-24|website=www.mcminnvilleoregon.gov}}</ref>

City Park is within walking distance from the downtown business district. It opened in 1910, when the city sold $3,000 in park bonds to finance construction of a [[bandstand]] and a small zoo featuring bears, deer and other regional animals. Near the site of Lower City Park, the large flour mill, Star Mill, operated until 1921. After the remaining structure was damaged by fire in 1927, the city sold $8,500 in bonds to finance purchase of the property. The tract ran from Star Mill Way to Cozine Creek and West Second Street, to the mill pond site. The pond site was redeveloped as city tennis courts.

Wortman Park is a large forested park with a small stream running through it. A [[disc golf]] course was installed 1991 and is home to the annual Squirrel Open, an Oregon Disc Sports Association's Oregon Series tournament.

Since 1956 the McMinnville Parks and Recreation Department has overseen the Aquatic Center, which includes two indoor swimming pools, a hot tub, and Fitness Center. The Aquatic Center is used by the McMinnville High School Grizzly Swim Team and the McMinnville Swim Club. The city parks department also partners with [[Chemeketa Community College]], whose students may earn college credits <!-- for what? PE requirements? -->through use of the Aquatic Center.