Known as the Alberta Art District, new art galleries, restaurants, clothing boutiques and gift shops have been popping up here for over a decade. What was once a run-down trouble street has become a hipster hotspot and Portland’s best kept fashion secret.
Tips: Pick up an Alberta Street walking map. Most boutiques and galleries have one [...]

The Willamette Falls is a horseshoe-shaped block waterfall caused by a basalt shelf in the river bottom. The 42-foot-high and 1,500-foot-wide falls occurs 26 river miles upstream from the Willamette’s confluence with the Columbia River. It’s the largest waterfall by water volume in the Northwest and the 18th largest by volume. Around the falls are [...]

Organic farmers, ranchers, cheese makers, artisanal bread bakers, flower growers and chocolatiers – all assembling under white canopies in two of Portland’s bustling gathering spots. So, whether you’re an “eastsider” or a “westsider,” you now have two more easy ways to support Oregon farmers and eat local.

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Founded in 1964 in Portland, Oregon, the World Forestry Center is a nonprofit educational institution.
The mission of the World Forestry Center is to educate and inform people about the world’s forests and trees, and their importance to all life, in order to promote a balanced and sustainable future.

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In 1974, a group of artists and artisans from Eugene, Oregon, traveled north to Portland to establish the Portland Saturday Market. Since then, it has been the prime spot in town for locals and tourists alike to find hand made crafts and fine art, buying them directly from the artist. Today the Portland Saturday Market [...]

Locals and visitors are certainly made comfortable in every nook and cranny of this multifaceted plaza, literally by design. All week long people of all ages and walks of life enjoy the Square’s features, which are equally diverse: chessboards built into stone columns, a collection of public art, food carts and even a flower stand. [...]

Wedged between the Willamette River and a wall of steep, forested parks, Portland’s downtown is compact enough to explore on a two-hour walking tour.
Allow extra time to stop at museums and shops and if you tire along the way, simply catch a streetcar, train or bus - they’re all free.
Difficulty: An easy, 2.3-mile round-trip walk, [...]