The community of Island Lakes Condominiums is ideally located off Goodpasture Island Road in Eugene, Oregon close to Valley River Center, the Delta Ponds park and the Willamette River bike path. Welcome to our website.
For those who are unfamiliar with Island Lakes, our new website is an opportunity to share beautiful images of our environs, provide basic information about our community, and answer some Frequently Asked Questions (see FAQs).
For owners and residents of an Island Lakes condominium, Welcome Home! Sit back and relax. Enjoy the pictures submitted by your neighbors. Share the site with your family and friends. They will find maps, directions, and insights as to why you have chosen to make Island Lakes your home.
At Island Lakes website, membership does have its privileges! Website members have access to by-laws, committee minutes, informational updates, forms, and the monthly newsletter. We invite members to submit short articles and pictures of our community and the surrounding areas. A registration link is at the bottom right side of every webpage. Take a moment to register. It’s free and easy.
WHAT’S NEW!
Hooded Mergansers
What’s the Name of that Bird?
6 NEW BIRDS ADDED!
Getting to know the birds at Island Lakes enriches our experience as residents. Learning about the natural history of our area contributes to our sense of place. Some bird visitors to Island Lakes are year round residents of the Willamette Valley. Food is plentiful and they enjoy mild winters compared with other places. Life is good, so they stay. Others are migratory and have a calling to travel. They stop at our lakes to rest and feed before resuming their journey. These birds appear only during certain seasons. [ READ MORE ]
Maple leaves
Autumn Leaves & Fall Colors
Roger Williams died Oct. 8, 2011 at 87. In 1955 he recorded “Autumn Leaves,” the only piano instrumental to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s popular music chart. It sold more than two million copies and remains the all-time best-selling piano solo record. 1955 was the year ILC resident Charlene Simpson graduated from Oregon State College. The melody is forever etched in her memory. [ READ MORE ]
New ILC Colors Selected
Gone are the days when our doors were all painted same shade of blue! Now ILC residents can choose from a variety of approved colors. Paint for doors is available at Jerry’s Home Improvement or Tommy’s Paint Pot on Conger St. Pick from the following Benjamin Moore paints: Montana Agate 56, Silken Moss 237, Raisin 1237, Bittersweet Chocolate 2114-10, or Spanish Red 1301. Unit owners can paint their doors at any time.
approved colors for doors
Office Hours
The office is now open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 12 Noon. You can contact our property manager, Mary Morris, during those times each day. During these office hours, there may times when she is not in the office. Please leave her a message as to a good time that she can call you back when she returns.
Coburg Road before flood control – Dec. 31, 1942 (photo by R.B. Boals, courtesy EWEB archives)
High Water: Is Island Lakes at Risk?
This winter we heard about destructive floods in Australia, Brazil and Pakistan. We watched news clips of floods in Southern California, Washington and in the Portland area of Oregon. What’s going on? Likely Mother Nature is just going about her business as usual. [ READ MORE ]
Goodpasture Island’s Changing Landscape Before 1846 to the Present
Eugene Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch was asked: “Is Goodpasture Island north of Valley River Center an island and, if so, was it named because it was ‘good pasture’ for animals?” Welch’s answer was: “No and no. There was such an Island, before flood-control dams were built in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s on the upper reaches of the Willamette River. [ READ MORE ]
Clubhouse is a “Hot Spot”
A wireless internet connection in the clubhouse is available to Island Lakes residents. Additional information-including the password-can be found under the ‘News’ tab in the ‘members only’ area of this website.
