On the lands of the Warm Springs, Wasco, and Paiute Tribes and within the dramatic bluffs, river corridors, and juniper sage landscapes of the Warm Springs Reservation, sits the Warm Springs Community Center and its play areas, ballfields, gardens, and sheds that support gatherings and games. To better serve the Indigenous community’s health and wellness, the Warm Springs Ballfields project is centered on enhancing the existing assets and extending safe circulation to frame a new, world-class ballfield and community complex deserving of the people of Warm Springs.

Our proposal expands the riparian buffer along Shitike Creek and brings shade trees throughout the site for spectators to enjoy games on hot summer days. The main spine through the site connects existing cultural spaces like the stick game shed and picnic grove to the ballfields and concessions shed and out to the completed loop path around the site. By clarifying the flow of the site and providing safe pedestrian connections, this place will continue to be the recreational heart of the community as host to cultural events like Pi-Ume-Sha and by serving the Warm Springs Nation Little League and adult leagues that play on its fields.