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Visitor Info for Portland and Oregon
Downtown Portland has a LOT to see and do. There is serious nightlife here.
No Sales Tax in Oregon. Shop accordingly.
Portland Streetcar
runs across the new
Tilikum Crossing to the
Pill Hill Tram through
Portland State University, and downtown. It stops at
Powell's City of Books and continues through the trendy
Pearl District, then loops through the trendy
NW 23rd area.
Pioneer Square
Portland's civic "living room" park.Public Transportation is quite good. Here's a MAP.
ADA: Downtown Portland and public transportation are all highly ADA compliant. All street corners have ramps, trains and busses kneel or have ramps, taxicab companies have wheelchair cabs and Tri-Met,
our public transport agency has special short busses.
$3 between the PDX International airport and Downtown on MAX our light rail line. Also can drop you at Lloyd Center and Beaverton.
River Cruises
on the Willamette River with multiple cruises every day including lunch and dinner cruises.
Wine Country - the Oregon Wine Industry
has over 2,000 vineyards, they start less than one hour to the West of downtown, and half an hour to the South. There are formal and informal tours, or you can rent a car and just explore.
Brew-Pub Tours - Portland has more brew pubs per capita than any city in America. There are formal and informal tours.
Portland Art Museum
Oregon History Center
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
All in the same area: ~$10 by cab, ~$3 by bus or Light Rail:
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Oregon Zoo
Children's Museum
Western Forestry Center
Oregon Vietnam Memorial
Hoyt Arboretum
Japanese Gardens
Rose Test Gardens
Providence Park Association Football / Soccer, Baseball. On MAX. 5 blocks from Capstone
Rose Garden - Basketball, Hockey, Arena Music. On MAX and Streetcar lines.
Lloyd Center Shopping Mall
Moonstruck Chocolate Co.
is a local firm. As seen on Oprah.
526 NW 23rd Ave., 503-542-3400,
Oregon Symphony
and their 2,500 seat Concert Hall.Portland Opera
and their 3,000 Seat Concert Hall. Portland Center for the Performing Arts
Movie Theaters
City Blocks are only 200 feet, plus sidewalk and street. The original land developers wanted plenty of corner lots. This makes Downtown Portland very human scale and easy to walk.
Weather in Portland is famously mild. Some years we get no snow at all. A big snow year is a week to ten days total. In summer, temperatures in the 90s total less than two weeks. When you want to follow weather trends closely, check out Wunderground.com
(Weather Underground) a social network of private semi-professional-class weather
stations all over town and all over the country. There are a dozen such stations within a mile of Capstone. The link above is to the closest.
Temperature is reported every 10 minutes in tenths of degrees. If you scroll down, you'll see it charted, along with Wind, Precipitation and barometric pressure.
If that name seems oddly familiar but out of place, it is a pun of sorts on a radical-left-wing US terrorist group active in the 1960s to 1970s, that called themselves
Weather Underground
. No connection between the two that we can see. ;-)