Kurt Cobain Memorial Park
Kurt Cobain Memorial Park
3.5

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Jill B
Box Elder, SD199 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2022 • Couples
We drove by it, not really any parking, you can at a neighborhood park over the river probably… and walk over to it. But there’s nothing there really. A large poster like board, and a guitar & statue a picnic table (if available, & no one sleeping on it) Tiny spot… you can take it in just driving past it.
Written July 16, 2022
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andreaarthurowan
Lake Stevens, WA5 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2023 • Family
If you're a Kurt Cobain fan, I guess this would be a must-see in Aberdeen. My husband and I struck up a conversation with a friendly stranger in Newport, Oregon, who told us about it. (He wanted to know where we were headed for the rest of our trip.) After that, my husband read up on Cobain and decided that since we were staying overnight in Aberdeen, he wanted to see it. (We're old enough to know about Nirvana and some of Cobain's history, but we're not bona fide Nirvana fans.) All I can say is that this place is kind of bizarre and sad, a testament to his final days, maybe, and his life in Aberdeen. People have certainly made a creepy shrine out of the bridge, and the poor people living next to it must get harassed. They had a big sign out front stating that this wasn't Kurt Cobain's house, and wasn't a gift shop, so please stop stealing their stuff! How sad.
Written September 6, 2023
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Fred G
8 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2020
Supposedly Cobain slept under the brdige. I doubt it. At low tide it's all muddy and slimy. It's at the end of a short residential street with almost nowhere to park. Arberdeen should take advantage of Nirvana fans coming town. There is currently nothing and this is a big part of the nothing.
Written August 6, 2021
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MLBplant
Seattle40 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2014 • Solo
Kurt Cobain apparently found very little happiness in Aberdeen and neither did I. It's a place that feels old, used up, forgotten. Perhaps there are people there who are imagining a way to bring the core of the town back to life. I hope they manage to ignite energy and vitality into the place again -- that would be a good thing.

Getting to the memorial park is easy enough with GPS or simply by asking anybody because everybody who lives there knows. I found the place to be just another place under a bridge, like so many other thousands of places being occupied by unhappy, lonely or just day-dreamy kids right this very minute all across this country. The Wishkah River isn't lovely here, but I love rivers, and I like to hope that Kurt found at least a little serenity here. We know his modest childhood home is just down the street, and we know there was very little happiness for him there.

It's easy for me to stand beneath this bridge and see a little blonde boy lost in his thoughts, wishing for something better in his life, wondering what it all means. It makes me want to cry for him and all the lost children.

Maybe this is a memorial park for Kurt Cobain, but to me it almost feels like a holy place that makes me want to pray for people to be better parents, less selfish.
Written July 30, 2014
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Steve C
Toledo, WA1,312 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2014 • Family
From the "Come as you are" sign as you enter town, and this small and simple memorial park. Any Nirvana fan will feel the history of Kurt and his connection with his hated hometown of Aberdeen,WA. As a HUGE fan I was deeply touched by these small acknowledgements. If they had erected a statue and renamed half the streets in town it would have felt like the pure B.S. it would have been. Really considering that any time the subject came up, Kurt wouldn't miss the chance to slam Aberdeen. Remember he HATED this place! So a memorial had to be very low key, and I feel thats exactly whats accomplished here. There's no entry fee's, or T-Shirts on sale. or even signs. (If we hadn't had our G.P.S we wouldnt have found it.) No big cheesy puff and stuff. Just a Left-Handed guitar statue (A Fender "JagStang" the guitar Kurt designed for Fender) a couple quotes. and the river (The same river Kurts mother threw her boyfriends guns into after a fight, Kurt watched this, then later payed a friend to retrieve them and pawned them to buy a guitar. ) And underneath the bridge. Which at one low point in his life, was a better option than home for him. Kurt put Aberdeen on the map, so to speak. The town had to acknowledge that, But how they did it tells me that something very important has happened in the broken and beaten town of Aberdeen since Kurt called it home. That this town has tried to honor and remember a member of its flock who not only fled, but spoke only of its inadequacies. That they erected a tribute that Kurt wouldn't be embarrassed by. Its just a quite acknowledgment, not an attempt to cash in, not an attempt to be something its not. Just a small patch of donated land. The man who donated the land said he wasn't doing anything with it, Its just all brambles, why not make something nice for people to come to? As we drove out of town I saw two young lesbian girls walking together, lovingly holding hands. I smiled as I thought about how Kurt would have loved that. We can all only be who we are, but we can always work to fix the parts of our-self's we don't like. Aberdeen, whether they know it or not, Listened to Kurt. and like anyone who actually LISTENED to him. They are better for having known him.
Written July 28, 2014
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Wusty
Melbourne, Australia21 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2014 • Couples
All the way from Melborune, Australia we came to the park and chilled under Kurts bridge. It was awesome and kind of eerie to be in such a pivotal part of Kurts childhood. A MUST for any Nirvana fan.
Written June 3, 2014
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Pat M
Hoquiam, WA43 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2014 • Family
Pretty darned good musician but the memorial seems designed as an attempt to draw in tourism. It is a fact the this man really didn't like Aberdeen and his personal life style of abusing drugs and alcohol are nothing that should be celebrated let alone his suicide.
Written March 4, 2014
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thecdbox
Vancouver, Canada56 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2014 • Family
This is a place that actually inspired the creation of a song. Unlike other super touristy music related attractions, the memorial is more like a site for pilgrimage where you'll find fellow travellers who love the music of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. The site seems to be in the exact same condition as when Kurt Cobain himself used to sleep under the bridge - shadowy, wild, and desperate. If you are a huge Nirvana fan, then you can't miss this place
Written January 30, 2015
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SF88
San Francisco, CA109 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Sep 2013 • Family
Visit on a cold, rainy day (there are lots of those) and get Nirvana on your ipod: this is where Kurt grew up; the bridge he lived under as a teenager, and the gray, moody weather that no doubt inspired many of his angst ridden songs.
Written August 19, 2014
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Janko
8024196 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2014 • Family
Make sure you get your directions before you go find this place. The small little park is at the end of a dead end road under the bridge. The town of Aberdeen just makes you feel so sad, it seems like it is really in decline. This little park is a nice quiet place on the river and you can see why Kurt came and hung out here. A nice remembrance for Kurt....
Written July 21, 2014
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