Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond

Children play in the splash pad at Klineline Pond.

Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond is a popular spot, with a bathhouse, roped swimming areas, a children's splash pad, observation platforms and a life jacket loaner station.

The park also features 35 acres of developed parkland and 368 acres of undeveloped green space. It also backs up to the Salmon Creek Sports Association Complex, home of the Vancouver Girls Softball Association.

Facilities

2 reservable picnic shelters (Pondview shelter is currently out of service)
35 picnic tables
6 barbecue grills
7 sets of play equipment
Sandy beach
Chlorinated spray ground water feature
2 drinking fountains
1 bathroom
186 parking spaces, plus 4 disabled parking stalls

Hours

7 am to dusk

Parking fees

Clark County Parks charges parking fees year-round at Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond. Daily parking fees are:

$2 for motorcycles
$3 for cars and trucks
$6 for cars and trucks with trailers
$8 for buses or motor homes

These are parking fees, not entrance fees. There is no charge for people who walk or bicycle into Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond.

During the busy season, parking fees are collected from a fee booth and a parking meter. When the fee booths are not staffed, park users need to use the parking meter.

Both fee booths and self-pay stations accept cash, coin, debit cards, Visa and Mastercard. They do not accept checks, Discover or American Express cards.

Frequent park users can save money by purchasing annual parking passes, which are valid at the four regional parks charging parking fees: Frenchman’s Bar Regional Park, Lewisville Regional Park, Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond and Vancouver Lake Regional Park.

For 2022, annual parking passes cost $30. Go to the parking fees webpage for information on how to purchase annual parking passes or click here to purchase a parking pass online.

Under Clark County Code, parking a vehicle without paying the required daily fee or displaying a valid parking pass could result in a $40 fine.

Clark County Code, 9.05.260 Parking

Klineline Pond

Lifeguards on duty at Klineline Pond.

Klineline Pond at Salmon Creek Regional Park will not have lifeguards on duty in 2022

The splash pad will remain operational from 11 am to 7 pm daily, July 1 through September 15, depending on weather.

Park users are urged to follow the buddy system when swimming. In addition, parents of young children should be particularly vigilant.

Please observe the following rules when using Klineline Pond:

No pets, other than service animals, are allowed across the bridge into the main use area of the park.
No boats, canoes, kayaks, rafts or air mattresses are allowed on the pond.
No abusing docks, ropes, buoys and pilings.

Salmon Creek Greenway and Trail

This urban greenway runs along Salmon Creek between Lake River in Felida and Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond in Hazel Dell. It includes bottomlands, wetlands and forested hillsides on both sides of Salmon Creek and the north end of Cougar Creek.

Despite the urban setting, the greenway is extensively used by wildlife, including migratory waterfowl and other birds, deer, coyotes, rabbits, opossums, raccoons and beavers.

A 3-mile-long paved trail extends through a portion of the greenway between Salmon Creek Regional Park/Klineline Pond and Northwest 36th Avenue in Felida. The trail is relatively flat, except for a slope up to Northwest 36th Avenue.

Besides the trailhead in Salmon Creek Regional Park, the trail also can be accessed at the parking lot near the Vancouver Girls Softball Association's fields (restrooms at this location) off of Northeast Hazel Dell Avenue. Access to Cougar Creek Trail is available near the mid-point of the Salmon Creek trail. Look for the stairs up the hill, past the picnic table.

Habitat restoration efforts along Salmon Creek are coordinated through a partnership with the Clark Public Utilities. More information is available on Clark Public Utilities StreamTeam's website.

Picnic shelters

Creekside picnic shelter at Salmon Creek Regional Park.

Salmon Creek Regional Park has two reservable shelters. Each shelter seats 50 people and rents for $75 a day. The Pondview picnic shelter is currently unavailable for rental.

Shelter information (PDF)

Other portions of the park may be available for weddings and other events with an approved special use permit. Air-inflated “bounce houses” are allowed with approved special use permits, but dunk tanks are not.

Shelter reservations, sports fields scheduling and special use permits