Downtown Portland

Worth seeing in and around Downtown Portland

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Mill Ends Park

   Mill Ends Park is the smallest urban park in the United States. It consists of 1 tree, located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway next to Tom McCall Waterfront Park along the Willamette River near SW Taylor Street in the downtown core of Portland, Oregon, United States.

   600 m · miniature city park in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Moda Center

   Moda Center, formerly known as the Rose Garden, is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is used for basketball, rodeos, circuses, conventions, ice shows, concerts, and dramatic productions.

   1.7 km · sports arena in Portland, Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Portland State University

   Portland State University is a public research university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans.

   900 m · public university in Portland, Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Providence Park

   Providence Park is an outdoor soccer venue located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the home of the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

   1 km · sports stadium in Portland, Oregon, United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Portland Art Museum

   The Portland Art Museum is an art museum in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The Portland Art Museum has 240,000 square feet, with more than 112,000 square feet of gallery space.

   500 m · art museum in Portland, Oregon · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon

   The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western Oregon in the United States. Established in 1846, it was the second Catholic archdiocese in the United States after Baltimore.

   3.3 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   MAX Light Rail

   The Metropolitan Area Express is a light rail system serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Owned and operated by TriMet, it spans 59.7 miles and comprises five lines and 93 stations.

   100 m · light rail system serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area in the United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Portland Japanese Garden

   Portland Japanese Garden is a 501 nonprofit organization, cultural institution, and public attraction in Portland, Oregon. The Garden, which opened to the public in 1967, occupies 12.5 acres in Portland's Washington Park and is adjacent to the International Rose Test Garden.

   2.3 km · garden in Portland, Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Oregon Health and Science University

   Oregon Health and Science University is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medical Department and later became the University of Oregon Medical School.

   2.4 km · public university in Portland, Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Wells Fargo Center

    Wells Fargo Center is a 40-story, 546 ft tower and adjoining five-story office building with three basement parking levels in Portland, Oregon. The tower became the tallest building in the state of Oregon when it was completed in 1972.

    600 m · building in Oregon, United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Oregon Historical Society

   1200 SW Park Ave (across from the Portland Art Museum), orhist@ohs.org.

2. 02
   Portland Aerial Tram
3. 03
   Portland Art Museum

   Sun noon-5PM, Mon-Tue closed, Wed-Sat 10AM-5PM.

4. 04
   Portlandia

   1120 SW 5th Ave (W side of Portland Building).

5. 05
   Oregon Maritime Center and Museum

   SW Naito Pkwy at Pine St (on the Willamette River at Tom McCall Waterfront Park), info@oregonmaritimemuseum.org.

6. 06
   Mill Ends Park

From Wikivoyage: Downtown Portland, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   Voodoo Doughnut

   The original location of the donut shop featured in many Travel Channel segments and New York Times articles.

2. 02
   Pine Street Market

   A casual and open food hall located inside an historic Portland building, with nine restaurants serving different food styles inside.

3. 03
   Fat City Cafe

   Local favorite, serves excellent breakfasts.

4. 04
   Laughing Planet
5. 05
   The Old Spaghetti Factory

   Although not the original location, this is the flagship location and headquarters of the nationally known Portland-based spaghetti chain, with views of the Willamette riverfront.

From Wikivoyage: Downtown Portland, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Downtown Portland

Airports

Portland (PDX), 10 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 216 km

Stations

Albina/Mississippi, 2.3 km · Convention Center, 1.8 km · Old Town / Chinatown, 900 m · Rose Quarter Transit Center, 1.6 km · Lloyd Center / Northeast 11th Avenue, 2.3 km

• Seattle → Downtown Portland

  234 km · quickest by road, 4h 20m · $22–31
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• Spokane → Downtown Portland

  467 km · quickest by air, 6h 9m · $160–240
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• Boise → Downtown Portland

  555 km · quickest by air, 6h 17m · $160–240
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No local-transport research exists yet for Downtown Portland

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Downtown Portland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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