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Gresham

Gresham is a city in the Willamette Valley, Located in Multnomah County in the U.S.

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The place

Gresham is a city in the Willamette Valley, Located in Multnomah County in the U.S. state of Oregon, bordered by Portland to the northwest and partially in the southwest. It was first settled in the early 1850s by the Powell brothers. It remained unincorporated until 1905; it was named after Walter Quintin Gresham, an American Civil War general and United States Secretary of State.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gresham

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
    Oregon's 3rd congressional district

    Oregon's 3rd congressional district covers most of Multnomah County, including Gresham, Troutdale, and most of Portland east of the Willamette River. It also includes the northeastern part of Clackamas County and all of Hood River County.

    5.5 km · U.S. House district centered on Portland, OR · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mount Scott

    Mount Scott is a volcanic cinder cone with its summit in Clackamas County, Oregon. The summit rises to an elevation of 1,091 feet.

    9.7 km · mountain in Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Leach Botanical Garden

    Leach Botanical Garden is a 16-acre botanical garden located in outer southeast Portland, Oregon, near S.E. 122nd Avenue and Foster Road. It was acquired by the Portland Parks Bureau in 1972.

    7.9 km · botanical garden in Portland, Oregon, U.S. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Powell Butte

    Powell Butte is an extinct cinder cone butte in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Boring Lava Field, which includes more than 80 small volcanic edifices and lava flows in the Portland–Vancouver metropolitan area.

    5.4 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site

    Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site is a state park in eastern Multnomah County, Oregon, near Troutdale and Corbett, and is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. It is located on the Sandy River, near its confluence with the Columbia River.

    7.8 km · state park in Oregon, USA · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bloomington Park

    Bloomington Park is a 12.87-acre public park in Portland, Oregon's Lents neighborhood, in the United States. The park was acquired in 1940.

    9.8 km · Public park in Portland, Oregon, U.S. · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Earl Boyles Park

    Earl Boyles Park is a 7.84-acre public park in Portland, Oregon's Lents neighborhood, in the United States.

    9.1 km · public park in Portland, Oregon, U.S. · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ed Benedict Park

    Ed Benedict Park is a 12.7-acre public park in Portland, Oregon's Lents neighborhood, in the United States. The park was acquired in 1988 and features a skate plaza.

    9.7 km · Public park in Portland, Oregon, U.S. · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mill Park

    Mill Park is a 5.7-acre public park in southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. The park was acquired in 1986.

    8.9 km · public park in Portland, Oregon, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Dabney State Recreation Area

    Dabney State Recreation Area is a park on the Sandy River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in Multnomah County outside the city of Troutdale, the park offers swimming, boating, disc golf, and other activities.

    7.3 km · state park 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.

Go there

Getting to Gresham

Airports
Portland (PDX), 17 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 219 km
Stations
Portland-Troutdale Airport, 7.8 km · Cleveland Avenue, 2.4 km · East 122nd Avenue, 9.3 km · East 181st Avenue, 5.5 km · Gresham Central Transit Center, 2.3 km
  • Seattle → Gresham
    235 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · $23–32
  • Spokane → Gresham
    451 km · quickest by air, 6h 26m · $170–260
  • Boise → Gresham
    536 km · quickest by air, 6h 34m · $170–260
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gresham

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 Gresham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Around it

Next door to Gresham

Gresham is 19 km from Portland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.