PORTLAND · OREGON
Rivers, roses, waterfalls and the mountain.
Multnomah Falls and the Columbia Gorge, Mount Hood and the Oregon Coast. Food carts, brewery crawls, Willamette pinot and the city of bridges in between.
Only in Portland
Three things you can only do here.
Brewery crawls and city walks exist everywhere. A 620-foot waterfall on the edge of downtown, the tunnels under Old Town and the food-cart capital of the country belong to this city alone.
Waterfall country
Multnomah Falls & the Gorge
Twenty minutes east of downtown the Columbia carves an 80-mile gorge through the Cascades, and the basalt walls run with waterfalls. Multnomah Falls drops 620 feet in two tiers past a stone footbridge, the tallest in Oregon and the most-visited natural site in the Pacific Northwest. No other American city keeps a waterfall corridor like this on its doorstep.
- 1 Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Half-Day Hiking Tour
- 2 Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland, OR
- 3 Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour Morning
The Portland Underground
The Shanghai Tunnels
Beneath Old Town a network of brick passages once linked the basement saloons to the waterfront. The tales of men shanghaied through them onto outbound ships gave the city half its folklore. Guided trips drop below the sidewalk into the cribs and corridors, the one place where going underground in Portland means exactly that.
- 1 Haunted Underground Shanghai Tunnel Tour with Brewery Tastings
- 2 Portland: Underground Shanghai Tunnel Tour with Beer Tasting
Carts, beer and donuts
The Food-Cart City
Portland made the parking-lot food cart an institution: whole blocks of them, hundreds across the city, every cuisine on earth a few dollars a plate. Add more breweries than any city on the planet and a donut culture all its own, and a walking food tour is the quickest way to read the place.
- 1 Portland’s Original Delicious Donut Adventure & Walking Food Tour
- 2 Portland Downtown Food Tour: 6 Tastings of Local & Global Flavors
- 3 All-Inclusive Downtown Portland Food Tour
Start here
The one almost everyone books.
More visitors build a Portland day around this than anything else on the site.
The classics
Portland's Most Popular Tours
Multnomah Falls and the Gorge, Mount Hood, the Willamette wineries and the city's food and bridges. The days most people come for.
Where to begin
The experiences a Portland trip is built around.
The Columbia Gorge and Mount Hood, the Willamette wineries, the food carts, the coast and the breweries. The handful of days most visits are planned around, and the best way to do each.
The big decision
Which way out of the city?
Portland is a basecamp as much as a destination. Three great day trips, each in a different direction. Pick by the landscape you came for.
Willamette Valley
Pinot noir, an hour south.
The Willamette Valley is one of the world’s great pinot noir regions, and the first vineyards begin in the hills barely an hour from downtown. Cellar doors, valley-floor estates and long lunches between the rows, most of it an easy day trip with someone else behind the wheel.
Read the guide: the best Willamette Valley wine tours →After dark
Keep Portland weird.
The city leans into strange once the sun drops. Ghost walks through Old Town, haunted pub crawls, the shanghai tunnels under the sidewalk and a bar scene that rewards the curious. The unofficial motto is a dare, and the after-dark tours take it seriously.
See the after-dark tours →Mount Hood
The mountain at the end of the street.
On a clear day Mount Hood floats at the end of the avenues, 11,000 feet of glaciated volcano ninety minutes from downtown. Wildflower meadows and timberline lodges in summer, lifts running into spring, and a loop road that strings the waterfalls and orchards together.
Mount Hood tours →Beervana
More breweries than anywhere on earth.
Portland brews more beer than any city on the planet, and the proof is on every corner: taprooms, brewpubs and barrel rooms from the Pearl to the eastside. A guided crawl with a driver is the civilised way to taste the best of them in an afternoon, with the local stories thrown in.
- 1 Haunted Underground Shanghai Tunnel Tour with Brewery Tastings
- 2 Haunted Pub Tour
- 3 Portland: Underground Shanghai Tunnel Tour with Beer Tasting
By place
Portland and the country around it.
Downtown for the food carts and the bridges. The Gorge for the waterfalls. Mount Hood for the mountain. The Willamette for the wine. The coast for the Pacific. Mount St Helens for the volcano.
By activity
Pick how to spend the day.
On foot or on two wheels, on the river or in the air. Food carts and breweries, cellar doors and cruises, ghost walks and the waterfall trails.
Plan it
Three perfect days.
First time in Portland? A long weekend that takes in the city, the gorge and the valley without a wasted hour.
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