text: We manage parks for people across the entire state. That's what I mean by taking a system-level view. We're not cutting trees down -- they have fallen in storms on their own, and that could continue -- but what we're doing is facing facts. Some parks have a lifecycle. They're born, serve, and then decline, and eventually end. It doesn't happen often, and it's affected by many external factors: character of the property, level of use, funding, and other things. All parks have costs, even if they aren't functioning as originally intended, and as hard as it can be to admit, we do have to decide whether we keep a piece of property for an eternity even if it's not really working very well anymore. In this case, we decided to try and sell rather than allow it to continue to decline (yes, "try" ... this may not work). As far as people who need a piece of pavement to park for a short time, Junction City is 5 miles south, Monroe is 3.5 miles north, and Corvallis is another 16 miles past that.