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Battleground is a Great Place to Live!

Every year in the summer Battle Ground puts on Harvest Days. There are a number of community events including parades, street dances, a carnival and chili cook-off. Battle Ground is an almost yearly winner for the Float Best Exemplifying Community Or Civic Involvement And Pride in the Portland Rose Festival‘s Grand Floral Parade. In 2006, however, it received the Sweepstakes Award for Most Outstanding Float In The Parade.

In June 2007, the City of Battle Ground opened a 25,000 square foot skate park downtown, and in 2009, a new 13,000 square foot library.^[11]

Rob Hotchkiss, founding member of the Grammy Award-winning band, Train, lived in Battle Ground. Former MLB slugger, Richie Sexson, hails from neighboringBrush Prairie, and continues to reside in the Battle Ground area. Former MLB pitcher Gerry Staley, also born in Brush Prairie, went to Battle Ground High School.

Before her divorce in 2012, actress and singer Bethany Joy Galeotti, a star of the TV series One Tree Hill, resided in Battle Ground with her husband, Enationdrummer Michael Galeotti, when she was not filming in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Tonya Harding, the notorious figure skater, lived in or near Battle Ground after she retired from competitive skating and was arrested by Battle Ground police in 2002 for drunken driving and crashing her pickup in a ditch.

Jonathan Jackson, an actor from the television shows General Hospital and Nashville, among others, is from Battle Ground.

Battle Ground is accessed from Interstate 5 at exit 11 and Interstate 205 at exit 32.

Bus services are provided by the local bus company, C-TRAN, to Downtown Vancouver, Delta Park/Vanport MAX Station, Clark College, Hazel Dell, Yacolt, and theVancouver Mall.

Battle Ground is 18.5 miles from Portland International Airport, the closest large commercial airport.

Battle Ground is 25.5 miles from Portland, Oregon and 161 miles from Seattle, Washington. For further information contact Ted J. Williams atted@realestatebyted.com For further information contact Ted J. Williams at 360.910.0317