Alpenrose Dairy - Definition and Overview

Alpenrose Dairy is a dairy company located in southwest Portland, Oregon since 1916. It has been in the Cadonau family for several generations and was named after the alpine rose (Rosa pendulina) by the Swiss-born wife and early co-owner of the dairy.

The 52-acre (21-ha) grounds of the dairy include:

• Circuit d’Alpenrose, a velodrome, one of only 20 such tracks in the United States. The track was built to host the 1967 National Championships.
• Alpenrose Field, the site of baseball and softball games, including Little League championship games, since 1956.
• Dairyville, a replica of a western frontier town, with false-front shops, a doll museum, an ice cream parlor, a harness-maker's store, a music shop, and a 600-seat opera house with a pipe organ (with 4000 pipes).
• A quarter-midget racing arena.

Products from Alpenrose include milk, ice cream, eggs, and various cultured dairy products.

External links

• Official website (http://www.alpenrose.com/)
• Alpenrose Dairy and Our Valued Sponsors (http://www.softballworldseries.com/sponsors.htm), from the Little League Softball World Series website
• Little League Mourns the Passing of Philanthropist Carl Cadonau, Sr. (http://www.littleleague.org/media/cadonaupasses.asp)
• Alpenrose Velodrome (http://www.obra.org/track/information/) from the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association website
• Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association recognizes the owners of Alpenrose Dairy (http://www.sgma.com/press/1996/press990532084-22966.html), a 1996 award