Things to Do in Tualatin, Oregon

Claim Jumper Restaurant, is a casual dining restaurant with a family-friendly atmosphere and a modern twist on classic American cuisine. The extensive menu offers more than 200 food and beverage choices using only the finest, freshest ingredients available. The restaurant also has semi-private and private dining rooms and catering is also available.

The Tualatin Heritage Center, operated by the Tualatin Historical Society, preserves the city’s oldest church as a present-day community resource offering information and events about the area’s rich and colorful history, its diverse cultures and the natural environment around Tualatin. The Heritage Center also serves as the home to Lumiere Players, Tualatin’s own theatre group and is especially noted for its displays of mastodon and ground sloth bones as well as erratic boulders deposited during the Missoula Floods some 15,000 years ago.

A 28.33 acre natural area, Brown’s Ferry Park is a great place to take a quiet walk, enjoy a picnic, or view wildlife in the pond, creek, and Tualatin River. There is an extensive pathway system, picnic tables, wildlife viewing blind and river overlook platform as well as seasonal kayak and canoe rentals at Alder Creek Kayak & Canoe.

Threat Dynamics’ training facility is the only facility of its kind in the world where civilians can experience cutting-edge threat response technology typically available to law enforcement and the military. The state-of-the art facility simulates firing ranges and real-world scenarios projected onto large, 300-degree HD screens to offer virtual-reality tactical shooting experiences for individuals and groups.

Open daily; hours vary

Community Park is a 27.11-acre active park with an award-winning skate park located on the Tualatin River. The park has three sports fields, tennis and basketball courts, a playground, a skate park for skate boarding and in-line skating, four picnic shelters and a boat ramp with access to the Tualatin River.

The park is open sunrise to sunset except for the skate park, basketball courts and tennis courts, which are open until 10:30 p.m.

Cabela’s a leading specialty retailer, and the world’s largest direct marketer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise. Since the company’s founding in 1961, Cabela’s has grown to become one of the most well-known outdoor recreation brands in the world, and has long been recognized as the World’s Foremost Outfitter.

The Tualatin Cabela’s celebrates the outdoor activities to be found in Oregon. The store surrounds visitors with an outdoor-like experience via many museum-quality wildlife displays and a large mountain replica.

Tualatin Community Park is an active 27.11 acre park with a fantastic Skate Park. The award-winning skate park, designed for skateboarders and in-line skaters features various street-skating and free-style elements and includes a spectator area. The park also has three sports fields, tennis and basketball courts, a great playground, a dog park, five picnic shelters, and a boat ramp which allows access to the Tualatin River. The park is free and open to the public.

Open daily, dawn to dusk except for the lit areas (skate park, basketball and tennis courts), which are open until 10:30 p.m.

Acquaint yourself with local public art on the ArtWalk, a self-guided downtown tour of Tualatin’s diverse public art and natural and cultural history. The ArtWalk consists of several interconnected trails, each clearly marked—look for the map kiosks to determine the route and watch for the colorful trail markers leading the way to an enjoyable adventure. For more information or for a map, please visit the website.