Sportsmans Park, Oregon, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sportsmans Park, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Sportsmans Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sportsmans Park — the short answer
Sportsmans Park, Oregon: USDA zone 7a, about 190 days between hard freezes, across 94 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~190
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 94 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Sportsmans Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sportsmans Park's 190-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sportsmans Park
Each reading below is measured for Sportsmans Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSportsmans Park runs about 190 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredSportsmans Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Sportsmans Park is in
Sportsmans Park sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Sportsmans Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Wasco County is mostly Columbia Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sportsmans Park
Every plant below cleared Sportsmans Park's own zone 7a and its 190-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oregon profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sportsmans Park?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Sportsmans Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sportsmans Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 518 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sportsmans Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sportsmans Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BROWN'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- DAVIS, JR. IRLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- PINE HOLLOW LAKESIDE RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- WASCO COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- 04.00S/12.00E-11CCNitrate · 6.1 mi
- WAMIC AUTO PARTS AND REPAIRBrownfields · 6.2 mi
- OR STATE HWY 4-9 MAUPINUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
- WHEELON OIL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.7 mi
- WALTERS, EUGENE HUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.7 mi
- TYEE KEY LOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.8 mi
Measured from Sportsmans Park's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Sportsmans Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sportsmans Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sportsmans Park
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
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Your land is one point inside Sportsmans Park
Everything above resolves to Sportsmans Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 94 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Sportsmans Park Average
Sportsmans Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Sportsmans Park
- ●One soil character for all of Sportsmans Park
- ●Frost dates read at Sportsmans Park's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sportsmans Park's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sportsmans Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sportsmans Park, Oregon — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sportsmans Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sportsmans Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sportsmans Park average
How we know this about Sportsmans Park
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Sportsmans Park’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Sportsmans Park
When does frost risk typically end in Sportsmans Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sportsmans Park typically lands around Apr 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 11.
When is the first frost in Sportsmans Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sportsmans Park typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 190 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sportsmans Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sportsmans Park sees about 190 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 13, about 155 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sportsmans Park?
The federal record around Sportsmans Park is light — 11 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (8), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Sportsmans Park?
From about Sep 27 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sportsmans Park's scale — its 7a band and its 190-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sportsmans Park's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Sportsmans Park’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sportsmans Park's own scale — its own ~190-day season between 28°F freezes, the 94 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sportsmans Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sportsmans Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 27 and the ~190-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sportsmans Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sportsmans Park's boundary and the 94 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~190-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sportsmans Park sits in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sportsmans Park checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sportsmans Park's 94 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wasco County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wasco County
- The growing challenges every Oregon grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oregon
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Wasco County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sportsmans Park's 94 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sportsmans Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 94 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.7 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Sportsmans Park-wide figureread your own land →